Politics is about power; and power for powers sake may not be rational, but it is native to human nature... something that human-kind cannot change of itself.
Is it really? Are we as a species so neurotic that we actually need institutional control of other people? If that's the case then how does one explain those who don't seek it?
The desire for power is a motivation that is part of human nature as much as any other human activity. In other words it's extremely varied. We have objective universal needs but apart from that there isn't much that one can say is or isn't part of human nature. Our linguistic nature means that we have (unlike other animals) a need for meaning. But that's about the extent of it.
I understand the desire for power. I understand the desire to accept some costs for that power. But I couldn't fathom why with such a general need people who give preference to something that, even in terms of power, is pathetically trivial.
Re: A time to pause and reflect?...
Politics is about power; and power for powers sake may not be rational, but it is native to human nature... something that human-kind cannot change of itself.
Is it really? Are we as a species so neurotic that we actually need institutional control of other people? If that's the case then how does one explain those who don't seek it?
The desire for power is a motivation that is part of human nature as much as any other human activity. In other words it's extremely varied. We have objective universal needs but apart from that there isn't much that one can say is or isn't part of human nature. Our linguistic nature means that we have (unlike other animals) a need for meaning. But that's about the extent of it.
I understand the desire for power. I understand the desire to accept some costs for that power. But I couldn't fathom why with such a general need people who give preference to something that, even in terms of power, is pathetically trivial.