I think that maharajis rationale of not responding or not getting involved in this or any other discussion about knowledge or the past is that he he is above it and must remain so.

Yes, he probably thinks he's above it all, and may be he likes to bury his head in the sand too, and hope that somehow all those nasty F8 people will just disappear! His reaction to EPO, (a few years back) to try and get it shut down, was the behaviour of someone who's not interested in communicating and wanting to resolve problems, but of a control freak trying to suppress information. A person who has been used to getting his own way.

The kind of life he has had, not just in terms of luxury, but that he's been surrounded by people who project divinity onto him, prostrate themselves before him, put cushions under his tootsies, and attend to his every whim (with gratitude that they've been given the opportunity to do so). All this has done him no favours and must have given him some strange personality disorder by now.

If he is verbally abusive, (in a seriously warped way too - in the Arundel Training transcript) to people who "love" him, how on earth will he treat people who are criticising him? I dread to think! He's incapable of dealing with EPO and F8 because he has no idea how to deal with real life. He'll just throw another tantrum, fire a few people, then call in the lawyers. And everyone around him is probably too scared or too confused to put him straight.