MAYBE...
Since this is "Self-Development for Smart People", Steve is trying to figure out who is smart (by challenging his crazy ideas) and who are the dumb people (who will just accept everything Steve says as true without questioning it).
OR Maybe I'm a Darkworker?
Steve, where did you get this stuff from, those two books? Is this a new philosophy that you came up with, or does it have any other roots? Not saying it's not true if you came up with it, all philosophies got to start somewhere.