Friday 16 March 2012

Seeing Through the Rulers, Maybe.

I have a nagging suspicion that those who pursue the drive to rule others are, in so doing, expressing some deep seated insecurity. I have reasons for thinking as much, both observational and from personal experience.

If I’m right, it would seem that all those infamous, self-made historical tyrants – Alexander, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Margaret Thatcher – were actually deeply insecure people. And I suppose the great granddaddy of them all would have to be God. Ah... but... God, as the concept is usually perceived, probably doesn’t exist, so that would say something about people’s need to be ruled, wouldn't it?

Next question.

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