- Joined
- May 31, 2019
Bob reminds me of villains who move heaven and earth to get control of a country, only to sit on their ass and be bothered everytime someone tries to tell them some news, have them sign some forms, or arrange a conference call. They think power is just standing in front of large placards of oneself and throwing enemies into gulags, but there's a lot more to it than that. Even Stalin was probably bored stiff by half of the stuff he had to do in a single day.Every small-minded and frustrated person dreams of having the power to just declare themselves rich and in charge, (and justify the obvious abuse of twisting the self-determination of who knows how many people in the process as a mix of those others being sheep, and themselves being practically Demigods due to their own incredible and self-appointed intellectual vigor) Having failed to get anything of value by mid-life, it's no surprise the biggest power-mongers are unhappy, unattractive, unpersonable and very below-average people.
What is this "power"? Usually, somehow, amassing enough political influence to make your own will law, but the particulars are very foggy.
But rest assured, giving them this power will put everything right without them having to apply any firsthand guidance beyond just Tweeting out their personal desires, as it will inspire some other equally-nebulous group of "allies" to do the heavy lifting.
They see it as some kind of quasi-magic, never really defined about what it is (right side of history) but MILITANTLY and STRIDENTLY isn't. It's not white, not male, not capitalist and not conservative.. but aside from that, they have no clue what it is except some kind of divine light.
To leftists like Bob, power is nothing more than a currency, like money. The more you have, the more you can do. Power is the only thing that matters, because once you have it, you can remake the world in your own image. If you have to lie, cheat, kill or steal to get it, that's fine because you can just make it up to the people you've wronged or rewrite history to show that you never commited any crimes. You can also rationalize it by saying "I may be a monster, but I'm doing what's necessary so the people who come after me won't have to be." Bob's rationalizing it by saying that his enemies aren't human and are posing a threat to the "good" people who think like him. Bob also thinks that life is like the movies where the good people always win, so that means he'll be victorious in the end.
Most of us here have no idea where Bob's getting this idea that he's the good guy, because most people who act and talk like Bob in movies are dyed in the wool villains who either end up dead at the end of the film, or end up having an entire truckload of manure dumped onto them thanks to the heroes' actions. Most Kiwifarmers pretty much Bobwatch so they can see his final comeuppance, although Bob has endured humiliations that would have broken other lolcows and has soldiered on, changing not one whit from his negative experiences.