As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger considers Eric Hoffer one of the great men of the 20 th  Century. Hoffer saw himself as a FREMEN from the novel DUNE, a hunter for signs of worms; in his case, worms in a society which foretold its future. He was always looking for the anomaly in the society which was not a one off, but a precursor. On July 17, 2010, this Blogger published an paean to Eric Hoffer; the following is excerpted from that Blog. “Eric Hoffer was one of the great men of the 20th Century, a blind man who became able to see- literally, a migrant worker, a survivor of a suicide attempt, a stevedore, an essayist, a genius, a man who spent his time drifting or in a library or in a bordello. President Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, no one has deserved it more. He wrote a wonderfully insightful tome, THE TRUE BELIEVER, which stated that there was basically no difference between a Nazi and a Communist...