it's a phase (even though many never got outta it)
when you was a child, a navie child, everything is good and you love everything.
and then you become a teenager, an edgy one especially, everything is bad, everyone is bad, you hate everyone. You think everyone is fake and liars
and probably think you're better than them, cause you're not fake like them
you know, emo and edgy thing.
And then you mature, the world is complicated and most people just do what they think is best for them, we all just want to be happy (one way or another)
and on our own path to happiness, we happen to make mistakes or hurt others,..
.
We're not kind nor respectful bc we think we will benefit from them (well, it all depens)
but bc that's who we are.
we are kind and decent bc we too know that we all suffer (one way or another) and we all try.
.
So yea, it'd be nice to have power but it'd so funny to use that massive power to force immature people to act mature for once.
that's just depressing
but it's depressingly true
we try so hard but some people just don't listen, or don't care.
their indifference is worse than hatred
Oh man. This is eerily familiar to a lengthy philosophical and semantical discussion I had not long ago right here on another post. But what is “power” anyway? What does that even mean? Cause and effect- causality dictates a truism that we can’t do anything without power. It can take power to be kind- if you lack the power to do the kind thing even when you don’t feel like it or it is difficult.... you won’t be kind. An old woman might not have the “power” to get out of bed on their own. An old man might not have the “power” to lift. Spoon to eat. By literal definition- power is the ability to do.... any particular thing. So I mean... in that sense.... writing this takes the power to write and reading it takes the power to read and the whole point of this is not completely untrue... but is like saying “people only take you out to lunch if you’re alive. Once you die they won’t even bother to come get you for lunches anymore...” well... I mean... no $hit?
But power has more than one definition. Power can also be your ability to influence people. And well... that’s subjective. For example- a person might do you a favor they wouldn’t do someone else because you have always been kind to them. Because you were kind- you can influence them. If you hadn’t been kind, they won’t do what you ask. So in this case- your “power” or influence over this person COMES from being kind. They very much DO care if you are kind. In face in general- being able to influence people often comes down to all manner of little things. Now- money can give you power- you can buy things and even pay people to do what you want. Perhaps bribe your way out of trouble? Wow. So powerful right? Say you pay someone to murder a person and cover it up with your money. But..... what happens if you encounter an officer of the law who doesn’t want your money? How powerful are you now? So money isn’t inherently power. On a desert island stranded with seemingly no hope to escape
For years.... who is going to likely be “wealthier” or have more economic power: the guy with 5 million dollars or the guy with 50 cases of bottled water? All paper money is at that point is tinder to start fires. Without anywhere to spend it, without a government backing it- it is not much more valuable than twigs and pine needles.
So one can be rich but not be powerful. One can be powerful but not be rich. Power isn’t so simple as this guy makes it. Rosi makes some good points below so I’m not going to explore those. I’m just going to say that in general- it isn’t so much that people only care about your power- power is something that often is had because people care about you. If people don’t care about you, you’ve lost one of the main ways to influence people in our society asides from force or coercion.
when you was a child, a navie child, everything is good and you love everything.
and then you become a teenager, an edgy one especially, everything is bad, everyone is bad, you hate everyone. You think everyone is fake and liars
and probably think you're better than them, cause you're not fake like them
you know, emo and edgy thing.
And then you mature, the world is complicated and most people just do what they think is best for them, we all just want to be happy (one way or another)
and on our own path to happiness, we happen to make mistakes or hurt others,..
.
We're not kind nor respectful bc we think we will benefit from them (well, it all depens)
but bc that's who we are.
we are kind and decent bc we too know that we all suffer (one way or another) and we all try.
.
So yea, it'd be nice to have power but it'd so funny to use that massive power to force immature people to act mature for once.
but it's depressingly true
we try so hard but some people just don't listen, or don't care.
their indifference is worse than hatred