This entry is short but just to satiate my curiosity…
I’ve never fully understood why rapacious characters are constantly out to “take over the world” either by killing all civilians or enslaving them. What’s the point? The former will yield a solitary world devoid of any human contact. The latter, though it may seem desirable at first, will grant you chattels but paranoia as well — a revolution is bound to erupt, it is not in human nature to want to be enslaved, to want to be inferior. I can understand that the path to such a feat may be exhilarating, an adrenaline rush, but — Gah! — what a stupid endeavor to seek.
So, what is the point? Do we all agree that it’s completely pointless? Good.
Monday November 19, 2007 at 7:21 am
I don’t quite understand it either, but it is interesting to see how often it manifests itself in humans.
Maybe there is a scale of “ways in which people can separate themselves from the masses”, and this is at the bottom..
Monday November 19, 2007 at 11:38 am
That scale must be immensely flawed. The concepts of superordination and supreme power are overrated. Let alone it encourages a sedentary lifestyle after obtaining power — everything is handed to you.
In the end, you’ll come out looking like King Henry VIII, unable to walk due to his sheer obesity.
Sunday December 16, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Megalomania, delusions of grandeur, narcissism…we sure are an interesting species.
Monday December 17, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I love how you used the word “we,” it’s very much warranted — perhaps some of us more representative than others, though, of our “interestingness,” i.e. overtly delusional state of mind.
Thanks for stopping by, Vik.