Some take the short route - becoming a police man or perhaps even a soldier. But it takes real vision and power-mongering to want to be a politician. Physiognomy is real!
Both men and women are attracted to power. Sometimes even for the same reasons. Who knows why some already powerful people crave this thing even more. It's easy to see why someone like Rory the UK politician above would seek power. He doesn't want to be bullied any more for his retard looks. He also wants to pay it back a bit to all those fuckers who bullied him at school. But then there are men like Clinton, and his psycho wife, who already yield more power than a sane or insane man or woman knows what to do with, but they crave more.
That Hermes dress, that DeBeers diamond, is not always the main central focus or end goal for power. Even those things are to display power, to mark you out from the riff-raff.
And even the perversions that get some people caught in this trap, might be laughably silly when it comes down to it. All kinds of men have all kinds of weaknesses. They are pretty much all rather silly and pitiful. You don't even need to be in to fucking kids or torturing kittens. You might just otherwise be a strong tall strapping ruler of a country with a beautiful wife and 2.2 beautiful kids. How would they feel if it ever came out (the photos and videos and all) of you liking to dress up in a pink neglige with 10 denier stockings and matching pink fluffy mules? Humiliation, like power, comes in many forms. We are all susceptible to it. We all have our weak spots and we all have our dirty little secrets. And sometimes the more benign and banal they are, the more silly they seem.
Sure, a lot of them go the full hog, sexually torturing helpless kids, of course they do. But the whole satanic panic thing is way over played. Most people can't even organise a picnic let alone a full on Eyes Wide Shut party where the rich and powerfull all drink from the same poisoned chalice, to prove their loyalty to the others who also drink from the same cup. That shit goes on. Goes on all the time. But it's not what makes this world tick.
Look no further than good old fashioned greed and envy and human stupidity. It's not difficult to get one over on someone when you know even a few basic facts about their existence.
The thing is, we just don't know. Tony Blair was got to. Was it kiddy fucking that did for him? Was he into young boys? Dead young girls? Or just the old pink neglige/pink fluffy mules? We will never know. All we know is he was compromised.
This is one of those things that can drive you mad or worse, drive you in to becoming a true 'conspiracy theorist', seeing reds under the bed everywhere things don't make sense otherwise in your little cognitive world.
And what may be one man's weakness, could as easily be another woman's perversion, or vice versa. Is it so wrong to want to wear the skins and furs of dead animals that suffered horrific deaths just so you could indulge your passion? For you to make youreslf out to be someone that is not afraid to display blatant cruelty along with your power? And so what if a man has a thing for fresh faced 12 year olds. It's hardly the crime of the century is it, when that man makes decisions for millions of people and rules whole countries. Besides, those kids never stood a chance, coming from broken towns and broken homes. Collateral damage.
You are just a little person. You are not able to understand this. You scrape and save to get ahead, sometimes for basic needs, sometimes for a bit of fun or a bit of luxury if you are lucky. But these people have all they want. Every supercar, villa, maid, man-servant, piece of Veblen goods in the form of Gucci or Pucci or YSL or Givenchy.
Some people are just greedy and they get caught up in all this and they willingly play the game. The real psychos at the top, the real powermongers use these people like fodder and play them like the fools they are. And there are plenty of them.
Take someone like Putin. Do you think he is a good man? A wholesome man? Do you know what his kinks and foibles and fetishes are? No, you do not have a clue. Perhaps he doesn't have any. Perhaps he only has one. Was this why he rose to power to be one of the top power-mongers of the day and age? To sate his perversions or kinks? Maybe. Or maybe, like many of these types, power is just an end in itself because with it comes the whole world: all the supercars, supermodels, supervillas, anything you want baby, money can buy. Real money, the kind that talks when bullshit walks.
But power is nothing without control. And that control must be demonstrated. Ruthlessness is a top quality for a power-monger to have. But not the kind of non-thinking nig-nog kind of lack of empathy, oh no. The kind of hyper-real kind of empathy that a sadist and true malignant narcissist employs when they torture/destroy someone. Let them know you are fully aware of their suffering, and do it anyway.
We have enough natural resources on this planet to evolve and explore the stars. But that will never happen.
Man can not even get his own shit together to live in a peaceful and safe society. Every little thing that has happened has happened by design, and not by accident. It has taken the loss of human life to bring this about. You mean nothing. Your children mean nothing. Even the useful idiots of the revolution mean nothing.
The end goal is everything: power for its own sake.
A Hermes handbag that costs 40K and a Burberry Alligator Trench that costs 80K is all very well and good. It signals, that you have 'made it'. But even those things are not where the true seat of power or the true seat of the desire for power, resides.
The truth is, no one really knows. But while other men desire this, actively chase it, well, so will other men too.
Think big. Dream harder. Let nothing stand in your way.
And even when well on your way to becoming master of this universe, don't drink too hard from the tears of your enemies. Savour them for a while, but there are more delicious tears to come. My precious.
The pursuit of power comes in many forms. Sometimes it is sexual. Sometimes it is even based in good-will and altruism (and being on the right side of history). Sometimes it comes from a place of fear to never be vulnerable again, no matter what. Sometimes it is sought,
just because. Because it's there, ripe for the picking, and if you don't picky pretty polly off the tree, someone else will
. And you really wouldn't want that, would you?
There are people in this world that are only happy, or made happy, by what other people lack or do not have. The riches they possess mean nothing to them. But the suffering of another human being who can feel, is sweet sweet nectar to their darkened souls.
Don't be too greedy in this life, know that the greatest gift a human can have is their health/friends/family/wife/husband/children. And no matter how dark the days get, no matter how much they try to make you hate, always step back
, and be able to love.
There are probably more psychopathic serial killers that get off on sexually torturing kids who happen to be truck drivers, than there are politicians who rule whole countries. If for no other reason there is more of them, for a start.
There isn't one of us that knows this world we live in. And not one of us knows our neighbors or even friends or family, either.
If we are lucky, we might get to know ourselves. Intimacy is the most wonderful thing. And even if we are not lucky enough to share it with others, perhaps we can at least maybe experience it a bit within ourselves. This is probably where God comes in to it, and if you are blessed enough to have that special thing in your life, embrace that as well with all you have.
And this is where I shut the fuck up about shit I know absolutely fuck all about!
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