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Bert Potter died without expressing sorrow for the ways in which he damaged many young people.
Rosemary McLeod describes him as “a warning to whoever seeks a personal sage – and avoidance of reality – that you’ll most likely end up knee-deep in something disgusting”.
As McLeod sees it, giving such people guru status means denying “all the common sense of our upbringing, [and] the received wisdom of centuries”.
Read Rosemary McLeod’s column from The Press.
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Rosemary McLeod is a columnist, cartoonist and journalist.
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