Success Quote by Lynette Fromme

A weirdly clinical alphabet is doing a lot of work here: A to B to G to O turns thought into a conveyor belt, where the mind isn’t wandering so much as being marched. Fromme’s point isn’t just that people are linear; it’s that linearity is a kind of sedation. “Goals and ambitions” aren’t framed as virtues but as crutches, the little self-assigned tasks that keep the machine humming and prevent the terrifying possibility of unstructured consciousness.

The phrasing has the chilly detachment of someone watching “most minds” from the outside, as if she’s exempt. That’s the subtext: an implied superiority, the claim of a rarer, freer cognition that doesn’t need ordinary motives. In the hands of a conventional self-help writer, this would be a pitch for creativity. Coming from Lynette Fromme - a Manson follower later convicted for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford - it reads like something darker: a justification for abandoning the common social operating system. If most people need goals to “keep them going,” then rejecting goals becomes a badge of authenticity, even purity. That’s a familiar move in extremist psychology: recast mainstream life as shallow automation, then offer devotion to a cause (or leader) as the only real wakefulness.

The quote also smuggles in fatalism. Minds “hold” ambitions the way you hold onto a railing: not because you love the railing, but because you’re afraid of falling. Fromme’s worldview weaponizes that fear, turning ordinary striving into evidence that everyone else is asleep - and that she, by refusing the alphabet, is finally awake.