Power
-Hello, this is the home security monitor staff. The alarm went off and we'd like to know everything's all right.
-Everything's all right. I forgot for a moment the code when I got in.
-Who are you? What's your name? (in a rather insolent, irritating, bossy officious voice).
-I'm your dodgy grandpa who's burdened with a very case of Alzheimer's. Just kidding. I'm Roberto Wissai. I live here occasionally. I own this rather nice beach house. Anything else? Just to save your time, who don't you call the cops over? I'd rather be interrogated by the cops than by a lowly, underpaid, stupid little jerk like you. You little twit!
Then you hung up. All your life you have run into assholes like the above clerk. You were a slow learner. You didn't realize the import of power in human relationships until quite recently despite being exposed to the ideas of Nietzsche, Adler, and Foucault. You now think if one pays close attention to the dynamics of power in human relationship, he would understand most of what's going on in human societies. Power is more important than Sex in its interpreting force. In fact, there's much power in sex itself. Sex is not always an expression of Love.
Frankly speaking, you didn't cry when figures of authority got killed. Usually they asked for it. The more authority and power one has, the more one has to watch his back. Peace of mind is a luxury item for power-hungry or power-abusive assholes. Power may be an aphrodisiac, as the jerk Jewish Kissinger once opined, but it can be fatal in high dosage. Look at what happened to Diem, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi and sundry petty dictators.
(To be continued)
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