"The king is dead; long live the king!" is the feudal manifestation of the archetype of the slain and resurrected god. In similar fashion one's own virtual governor requires constant renewal and revision.
Don't you think Leary's term would land better here? Or have you avoided it precisely for such connotation? I remember having some trouble with that for a while in my twenties.
I have not actually familiarized myself with Leary's work. The closest approach would have been via Robert Anton Wilson and the rest of the ramifications through the occult and western esoteric corpus.
