i have known several smart, highly articulate men who had good,
high-paying jobs, but if you scratched the surface of their facade,
what was underneath was seriously nuts. not killer nuts or even
criminal, just living in a fantasy world of their own. they all
had families, and they were all quite responsible. most of them
drank too much when they could or smoked a lot of marijuana; one was
a situational heroin user. i think chas may be one of these people.
he's not bad, he doesn't hurt others--unless you happen to be an
investor in one of his schemes. he believes in what he's doing, but
is totally ineffectual. nothing ever really gets accomplished as
he floats along, doing his best to keep his head above water, capable of producing a reasonable sounding vision whenever necessity
forces him to do so. you can't hate him, you can hardly really blame him. but it's really too bad because if he was a competent business
person ctdt might do very well, and because we're stuck with
him, it looks like our investment will not turn out well.