Tasine wrote:
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I believe you are right about the POWER. But most people like to think they have a little bit of power, no matter how small the power is. Power in itself, however doesn't make most decent people indecent people. BUT, when you add my thinking, it says it all. My thinking is that all people who have a fettish about power, and this spells political left and a very few on the right, this spells out their psychopathology. They have no conscience. They feel no sense of guilt or of shame. They do not understand the soft emotions, but they revel in the harsh emotions such as hatred, anger, intense greed, fighting, smashing things, etc. They understand something being criminal, but they give no thought or understanding as to WHY something is criminal. If they COULD give that up, they MAY change, but I don't think they are capable of giving it up, I don't think they want to give it up, and they will ALWAYS BE CONTROLLING, DEMANDING, NARCISSISTIC, AND DESIROUS OF POWER.
Great post!
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Thanks, Tasine. But it is not power itself that is the problem---there is a use and need for power---but the addiction to power. I think this is more intense in humans than in other animals, mainly because of the gift of foresight, and the need to plan and prepare, even create, the future.
Anyway, I was thinking about this last night, remembering the opening scene in "2001, A Space Odyssey". My questions revolved around why did those apes pick up weapons and take on each other?