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You should have found it disturbing. Dr Berne meant it to be disturbing. And it is at a very high level of discourse because it calls into question all the facile assumptions of congruence that we make every day. The assumptions such as the one Will Pitt made in the basenote.

Would you have been more okay with it if I had altered Berne's parable (I almost did) to read:

'Well,' he began. 'As you know, yesterday I was only a simple agent, but as of today I'm in charge of our whole COINTELPRO operation'

Or would that not have worked for you either? Is it perhaps that you object to any parallel being drawn in which the participants are happy and self-satisfied, but the context is pathological? Is that the problem? Can you not bear the possibility that you might feel good about something that isn't good?