"When will you people get it through your thick heads that Chongo thinks for himself independently from me? He is his own ape. I may have created his persona originally, but he has his own separate agenda and it does not necessarily resemble mine in any way at all"

Uhhh..L.H...? I hate to tell ya, but that sounds a lot like it could be an accurate self-diagnosis of something that might need lookin' into.   : )