The son of leftist America-haters, Assange was born and weaned during the Cold War. Then the wrong side won. What the superpower Soviet Union failed to do with its armies, he, a super-empowered individual, will accomplish via the information anarchy of the Internet.

If Assange’s history-shaping goal seems grandiose and detached from reality, indeed it is. However, once you understand the man’s religion, his megalomania and solipsism become a bit more comprehensible if even more reprehensible.

Like other anti-American cranks on the planet, Assange holds firm in his warped faith that the U.S. is the leading source of global evil. The roots of this religion run deep, beginning with 18th-century European aristocrats who despised the American Revolution.

The anti-Americanism of Nazis, communists, tribalists, anarchists and now militant Islamists all rehash the same tropes, with their semi-schizoid baseline being the U.S. is simultaneously a vast authoritarian conspiracy and a heterogeneous menagerie of infidel-cowboy-capitalist idiots who dogmatically resist enlightened social policies. …”

Read more: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20101213/OPINION/12130315/Narcissism-not-justice-drives-Julian-Assange#ixzz18fkTh03m

The Secret Diary of Julian Assange

Craig Unger

“…Who is Julian Assange? Tantalizing clues may be found in what appears to be his “Selected Correspondence,” which were posted on a now defunct site, IQ.org. OpenTopic dug through the writings in web archives and discovered diary entries that paint a revealing portrait of the WikiLeaks founder. Starting in June 2006, the year WikiLeaks was created, the posts unveil a cult-like, idealistic, romantic, intellectual hacker — a male Lisbeth Salander if you like — who theorizes about diplomacy, computer coding, consumerism, the corporate state, even urination, and reveres Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, and Che Guevara.

In his most interesting postings from that period, Assange’s writings display a serious interest in anarchist intellectuals; a romantic sense of himself as “village atheist” who was wooing the minister’s daughter; a revealing interest in misanthropic child prodigies; a profound disregard for consumer society; and, finally, a deep, deep reverence for the “Voltaires, Galileos, and Principias of truth, on the Gutenburgs [sic], Marconis and Internets of truth,” who are the “serial killers of delusion, those brutal, driven and obsessed miners of reality, smashing, smashing, smashing every rotten edifice until all is ruins and the seeds of the new.” …”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-unger/julian-assange-blog_b_791173.html