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Reflections: Power

by Julian Strachan

Created on: December 16, 2010   Last Updated: December 25, 2010

Power controls people.  It addicts people and forces them to change.  To adapt to the upcoming forces that people witness in their day to day lives.  Power is such a force, that our entire lives are dedicated to finding and keeping such power.  For some people it is within a relationship with a spouse or a sibling or another member of the family.  For others power lies as a gem, an end.  These are the ones that seek real power.  The power over other people’s lives the sense of control.  World leaders all strive for such power, many people do.  Most people would dictate that possession of power means a responsibility to use it properly.  This however is a fallacy, power has no motive, and power is an object of scorn by people who fear it.  People with no power fear people with power and rationalize it to themselves that the people with it must protect them.  

The world leaders must protect their people because that’s what you assume power for.  This is not the case however.  How can a force take sides?  A force is neutral it’s shaped by the men who embody it who craft and create the objects we desire.  Our entire lives are dictated by the people that possess power.  This is where we have gone wrong.  We should not let the pursuit of the needs of these men with power dictate our lives, it should be the pursuit for such power.  We need to embrace the fact that there are only two sides of life, power and no power.  Life is a game.  It is played by all of this. In the end the only thing that matters to ANYONE is whether you had power or you didn’t have power. The men that are remembered are those with power.  You die without it you lose. Life isn’t precious, all life will be destroyed in millennia, it’s all about the present, and what people think of you in the immediate future.  There is nothing wrong with murder to gain this power, because in the end you will all be dead.  Any function to achieve power is the same; a man who obtains his power through deceit in politics has committed the same crime as achieving it by murder.  Look at the law, it is not the act they punish, it is the acquisition of power.  This is why crimes, a lesser offense in the grand scheme of things is punished so harshly, because a man has taken power from someone, and with this power he is a threat to the acquisition of power from the others.  Everything is about power and people need to start waking up and realizing this. Being a man that sits there in front of the TV is not a man, he is a failure as a human, and he is ignoring the principle rule.  People do not need to necessarily gain power from evil deeds, power can be obtained at a lesser rate with good deeds, but because in the end these good deeds do not matter, Real Power must be obtained through deceit and villainy to be real power, power that will be remembered for Eons.  Many people will see you as evil, but evil does not exist, it is just a name they give you because they fear your power.

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