And that has made all the difference

One of the roads not to travel is that of the mad, lonely, drunk, philandering, enfeebled, and monstrously rich “prophet” M. Scott Peck.

I am speaking, after all, to the adult version of the eight-year-old boy who fantasised about making speeches to “the nations of the world”, a man who regularly hears God speak to him. Prophets do not select their vocations.