Power – the orgy of the fearful

The most dangerous people are the fearful. The fearful are unhappy. The unhappy are not content. The discontented are selfish.

We seek safety not in justice and peace, but in the comfort of privilege, even if such comfort is riding on the back of social mayhem and oppression.

Adolf Hitler suffered from fear. He developed hatred. He became dangerous. He sought safety in exclusion (extermination, rather) of those who threatened the privileged comfort of his ilk. And those who served Hitler feared his fear, and him. So the orgy began.

Colonial oppressors, in their moment of fear, and their quest to resolve internal esteem troubles, developed hatred, and pursued to build privileged comfort, at the exclusion (displacement and suppression, rather) of those whom they found in their way.

Dictators and tyrants, even those who may have risen to power with noble intentions, may end up suffering from morbid fear. They may develop an exaggerated sense of self-importance. It is an enduring esteem problem seeking ways to resolve itself; the void of enduring unhappiness and discontent needing permanent filling.

And what better way to fill the void than to be in charge of the multitudes? To exhort exaltation; to rouse praises; to invite patronage and reward complicity of sycophants. Power is a permanent salve of psychosis, an orgy of those on board, with those begging accommodation.

Those of us who seek power at all cost, are running from our fear; a danger pursuing our very selves. The most noticeable characteristic in us, the dangerous people – seeing that fear can be masked - is loyalty; loyalty to the group of our ilk. We will kill to be in the group. We will kill for the group.

Killing may not always be a violent project of ending lives, but a spreading of lies, the peddling of propaganda, and the praise-singing of those who are faces of social mayhem and oppression may suffice.

Pandering to the whims of the elite, creationists of social mayhem, the heroes in charge of procuring the comfort of privilege, is but another way of killing. Turning a blind eye in the face of naked barbarism, of looting, of extortion, of vandalism, just because I fear to lose the little crumb (love, membership, friendship, a job, business, etc.) falling in my direction, is but another way of killing.

The most dangerous people are the fearful. All what we do, and won’t do, is motivated by fear. The jobs we hold, the social and religious institutions we belong to, the ideologies we are fighting for... all that, we are maintaining because we “believe”* it is human to be doing it; yet, ironically, we are afraid of being human.

What the dangerous people are seeking is access, not redress. What the dangerous people do not want to do is to rock the boat, let alone letting it to capsize. We cannot imagine a utility which is beyond, and better, than this boat of human pain. The boat must carry on, but with us in charge, with us on the controlling levers of social mayhem and oppression.

What the dangerous people want is to be trusted, and loved, by their subjects. We cannot survive without “our” subjects (people, rather). We need “our people” in order for us to continue feeling important. When there are no longer subjects, we will no longer be relevant. Our esteem issues will emerge. We will be tormented by our inadequacy. Our shortcuts will be revealed. We will be left without. We may no longer eat. We may no longer feast. We may no longer orchestrate patronage. We will be spurned.

We are the slaves of our fear. We march to power (disguised as nobility and love for the people) because of it. We are the slaves of our fear. We hold on to power and privilege because of it. Power - the orgy of the fearful.

[“Believe”* = ‘In fact, every belief is an obstacle.’ – Eckhart Tolle (author of The Power of Now)]