Mankind’s Dilemma: Power is a corrupting force intrinsically associated with greed

By Tom E. O’Neil
April 22, 2019

1) Fire, oil and technology

2) Politics and the war machine
3) Bourgeois and Proletariat: Recycled Revolutions
4) Joy or Depression which is on the rise?
5) Was God right, Mankind and Sin?
6) Future Martial law State
7) Solution, what to do about it?

Preface

If a caveman hit the side walk today, he would run wild until he reached a cliff, only to throw
himself upon the rocks from his own power. Reverse this, if a modern warfare soldier with all his
weapons teleported back to the past, thus finding himself in the midst of Cro-Magnons; he would
become God to them and that power would rush to his head. Society and culture including any
race has problems with the power paradigm. Somehow we are ill equipped, untrained,
unrefined maybe not brought up right to deal with our relationship to this intangible word called,
“Power”! Power is behind all our social evils or would you say that humans just cannot live
without that aspect in their character. My question is will mankind decline and fall from great
heights by hanging on to his ever increasing need for power? Or will we win the day by coming
to terms with our relationships involved with our everyday power moves?

Fire, oil and technology

Even before we picked up a stick lit by fire from lightening, men and woman must have had
grievances towards one another. Or as the other story goes Cain slew Abel. The stronger man
had sex with more women, usually ruled the clan, and had a greater portion of the hunt. The
ladies with the most sex appeal, cunning communication and greater gathering skills ended up
with the stronger man! Fire and tools added greater power to the leader of the tribe and
manipulation began for dominance over one another. Then resentment sets in as workloads
appear unfair in the hierarchy. It’s a vicious power cycle involved with all endeavors of men
which lead to corruption and greed ending with violence and endless revolutions.

Forward, to the present day and nothing has changed regarding greed, except that it has gone
global at alarming heights. Oil dependence the grand tragedy of the modern age, untold lives
lost to wars and behind all the deaths this liquid black gooey idol. Mankind’s hurry to go nowhere
with its new inventions derived from oil leaves everyone empty and wanting more. Furthermore one
word comes to mind, “Power” and what just is its relationship with mankind? I believe it’s our mass
illness wrapped up in the minds of men and women a sort of dark addiction left unchecked, that
leads to all our problems. It maybe the adrenaline rush associated with power over another and
some fundamental desire to climb over our neighbor at any cost. This narcissistic tendency in some
humans who think they are better or deserving to take their right of whatever goal over another,
because of a flawed ego.

Consequently, from fire to quantum computers the aim by a person, group or country is dominance
to achieve some need associated with the power paradigm; either borne out of innocence which
leads to greed or with the full knowledge of that end. Mankind’s dilemma with power must be
addressed on how we treat one another if we ever rise to the occasion of leaving the planet to a
new planet via our technology. Socrates may have said, “An unexamined life is not worth living”. I
say, “Mankind’s absolute passion for power will wipe him out before we reach a new planet”.

Politics and the war machine

This terrible left-right ideology makes one think all politicians are bobble heads yet they only bobble
to the left and the right not up and down, meaning no to everything that would benefit its citizens.
To me Politics should be more about appropriate representation of a nation with the aim to respect
the people’s goals of that country. Perhaps the politician’s power paradigm illness is more inherent
in these types. I know of a country which is a welfare state for corporations through an unfair tax
system and these same corporations own the news media; which spout pure garbage for ingestion
by a knowledgeable society who all fear the system. It’s a society awash in Power yet most
everyone is so unhappy. The fundamental reason is that this country’s government is a terror
machine with blood on its hands.

These power mongers, who run the state now days cannot spell, hold a proper speech, negotiate,
articulate their needs with foreign governments and probably could not even pass an application
test as a trash collector. I’m not slamming that job and any work is respectable likewise more
people than ever do need good paying jobs. It used to be that the conservative far right Elephants
was for small government and free trade now they are pigs with plenty of pork and graft. Then there
are the far left jackasses with their social crusades now bordering on communism. These powers
that be cuddle up to super packs with 30,000 a night gala dinners to engross themselves with the
orgies of future blood lust in conquering someone else’s rights or property. A really intelligent
historian and journalist Gore Vidal in my opinion was an isolationist in regards to war. I have gone
back and forth on that issue, but now I’m a firm isolationist too. My country is defended by two
oceans and has many resources if a war came this way that is, a proper government should defend
its citizens from that aspect alone.
Now a crisis exists with a huge amount of weapons on hand in the United States and many people
feel disillusioned with the military when it comes to signing on. That’s good but not for Uncle Sam it
wants to be the world’s police and the world hates this country even if it has some form of the last
bastion of tidbits of freedom and wealth. Simply put Power went to America’s heads with quotes
like, “I have become Shiva, the destroyer of worlds”.

Bourgeois and Proletariat: Recycled Revolutions

To be rich at any trespass or poor and be a door mat that is the question! The class power struggle
is like a bipolar ride eventually always ending in some conflagration of revolution in any society
throughout the ages. If you think the poor are angry at the rich well my friends the rich hate and
detest the poor or some do anyway. The poor envy the rich and the power they hold over them. Yet
the same people with power are sad human beings. However, when the masses of poor are far to
oppressed, it’s straight to the guillotine for the Bourgeois. Power vacuums arise and new power
players take their place only to repeat the same mistakes.

Which comes first wealth or power? I would say in most cases wealth when it comes to blue bloods
and it’s a means to obtain more power. Furthermore, I said before power left unchecked is an
illness and especially with the wealthy.

Will we ever be on a level playing field were everyone takes part in realizing that too much wealth
and all of the power trappings can be solved? This is a deep question which needs to be answered
if mankind can move forward!

Joy or Depression which is on the rise

Everyone has highs and lows, but it seems in America there is a growing epidemic of depression
which maybe associated with opioids, lifestyle and a lack of any power what so ever. I really mean
the power to wake up and join society in anything meaningful. It may even go to deeper straight to
the core of diet and a social media addiction. The envious jones’s trying to keep up with their outer
appearances instead of feeding their minds.
Joy is mostly found by what passion your involved with everyday not a cubicle from which you were
manufactured at birth to rise up through a pathetic education system, left to die 5 days a week to
get back in your cubicle again. In my opinion that’s not a life and it is a swift rode to depression.
There’s good working going and not all is lost. CBD’s or cannabinoids offer promise to help with
pain, inflammation and depression. So if you’re addicted to Opioids get on CBD’s.
Was God right, Mankind and Sin?
It’s my faith which has a lot to do with my stability and place in life. In my humble opinion the only
true place power can be rightly wielded is at the feet of God. And what I have seen in the last 53
years on earth is that sin absolutely exists. Even children play power games on one another and it
truly is an illness, this power paradigm.

Future Martial law State

A security state presence like the movies “Minority Report” and “1984” is vast and far wide now a
day in many leading countries. It’s all based on fear and manipulation. The politicians have
stripped most all our rights. There’s even fear of FEMA concentration camps for all the people who
the state deems as dissidents. Sure this is way too far as in the power paradigm illness.

Its sheer madness the government of the United States wants to RFID chip every citizen. The state
apparatus wants to deploy 5g satellites and 5g poles on the ground. It’s just another market scam
without testing if it’s safe. 5g technology is millimeter bandwidth technology’s which has distance
inabilities on the ground. Well it’s not funny, because we have wifi and cell phones that’s not good
for your health already. The NSA listens to you through your cell phone, listens to you through your
wifi HD TV and watches and listens to you through your computer laptop.

Trust me the police state is coming when the U.S. government suffers its next massive implosion of
the stock market. Anarchy will set in after the banks shut down and institutions fail, there will be
blood in the streets by the power mongers of the state.

Solution, what to do about it?

So what is to do about power in the mind’s eye? Will we ever learn from our past mistakes? All I
can think is to have compassion and kindness for your neighbor. When you see a poor person who
is in need lend a hand. Sure it’s all about faith yet that does not negate good deeds? If you can do
something be a rugged individualist, don’t enforce your will on someone else to do your deeds!