Power and Its Effect Upon Our Society

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it." At birth we are completely defenceless, powerless and scared. This unrelenting, tormenting and de-habilitating fear that we feel at the start of our lives becomes linked deep in our subconscious with the absence of power. As the link between power and freedom becomes more obvious to us we strive from the day we are born we strive to grasp any shard of power, any fragment of freedom, any glimmer of hope in the attempt to hold steady a fragile mind shattered by reality and gradually forced towards insanity.…