The first and foremost influence that a will to power has in a person’s life is that it isolates them. Since they presume to know what is best for other people and introduce coercion, manipulation, aggression, or any other manner of dishonest influence into other people’s lives to control them, they will become blind themselves to their own shortcomings. The more clever and shrewd power players will even be aware of this basic loss of personal insight and will, in order to throw other people off of the scent of their own isolation, contrive a false persona in order to criticize it n front of others as a means of appearing amenable and reasonable. Yet their deeper, truer self eludes them.
Isolation is the price for seeking to dictate moral terms to others as a person in power. The power player drives competent people away from himself, because they sense he uses them to serve his own ends and not universals, and then he complains that he cannot find competence – casting aspersions toward the competent as they naturally move away. He may even question, in his private moments, if he is the common denominator in this repeated experience. But he will never accept if someone else says it to him. He will shrug off the observation and bury it into the pages of history. The man who had the STONES to observe that the power player is the common denominator will be deliberately erased, left to the wolves, and dispatched under a torrent of abuse, if need be. No one must appear more sagacious or learned. They must bend or be driven away. The trick is to make it look like the person voluntarily absconded so that he appears a coward, as opposed to that he was driven away and is prudent on who he spends his insight on.
Isolation is a terrible condition to live in but it is the result of your True Self having been rejected by your parents. Those who suffer the worst are the ones who had their personalities most programmed the earliest. That is to say that the system of rewards and punishments put in place by the parents was done in a highly directed and empathetic manner. And the child responds to the programming because to buck against it is to be denied the precious few love resources, usually in the form of approval (which always walks hand in hand with rejection). Without love resources of any kind, and I use the word “love” in the conventional non-philosophic sense, the nectar attractant charms in the personality that are to carry out the parents’ wills cannot form into being.
Isolation + the will to power means there will never true happiness. And so a “philosophy”, that is to say a mysticism, of unhappiness will be the adopted ethos. This is not some deeply thought out, intellectual exercise in free will. It is simply the childhood programming speaking through the intellect like a scar tissue.
The power elite are highly programmed by parents who were either part of or near the elite families. This knowledge is deeply guarded, kept to elite schools and then treated as “no big deal” if any outside intelligence probes. “Trust me, it was such an overrated experience,” the elite person sighs, completely blind to their own ennui and basic sociopathic attitude towards others (important parts of the curriculum). Their complete lack of care for their own selves may appear nonchalant to the average normie, but to an honest True Self, they appear as horrifying apparitions.
Power will never give you the connection you need deep down in your bones. Uh oh, don’t admit a need because that’s weakness!
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