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Originally Posted by UntoHim
The Blended Brothers are really and truly "brother Lee's continuation"
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They are actually worse than that because the Lee they "continue" is an idealized Lee of their own manipulation for their own purposes. Any on-target calling into account of Lee they can brush aside simply by re-defining him. Thus for example, the BBs tell us that Lee did not really apologize right before he died for being strident and divisive. He apologized rather, they tell us, for the bumbling members who couldn't get his vision right. And so forth.
This is really a dangerous dynamic. I'm reminded of the Star Trek episode where Kirk and company visited the planet that had patterned its society after Nazi Germany. The actual leader who initiated the pattern meant well but had grown old and was being drugged and manipulated by his ruthless deputy to accomplish his own ends. All the deputy had to say was "the Führer said this" or "the Führer meant that" or "the Führer would have wanted such-and-such" and no one could argue because supposedly he was closest to the Führer.
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Sound familiar?
Now, this is not to say Lee wasn't at fault or did not initiate most of the errors in the LCM. But the BBs doubled-down the bet after his death and have utilized the added advantage of being able to manipulate the shadow of "LEE" any way they want for their own purposes. This is exactly what they are doing. No one can argue with them because they "knew Brother Lee's mind."
On the TV show the problem was resolved through bloodshed. I'm afraid that is the only way the LCM problem will be resolved, if only figuratively.