Power is the most sought after and destructive addiction imaginable. Human's have an automatic determination within ourselves to, at the very least, lust for power. The incentive does not need to be taught by society, for the direct relationship between power and order is the very foundation of society it's self. The only impact an established social structure makes on our quest for power, is what they decide our tools of obtaining it are. If being a business men is the means, we will see fit that it justifies our ends. A politician or warrior is no different tale. To taste power and have lost, is to understand thirst. It's a thirst that cannot be quenched.
The legend goes, once Alexander The Great learned he had no where left to conquer he returned to his tent, and cried. He knew the fire he kindled within him has now consumed him, and he had nothing left to burn. There is no analogy conceivable in the English language that does justice to the cold, empty realization that Alexander had. He was the most powerful man in the world, he has reached the top. Yet the destination is not truly whats pursued on the journey.
The Journey for power is just trying to satisfy a hole with no other logical substitute than that which we were born fighting for. The hole its self is infinite in thirst and hunger, and a concept so easily grasped by children such as power cannot be anything other than finite. We have seen one man die as sad as he was out the womb with all the world at his coffin, yet we choose to ignore his fate, and assume we are better fitted to satisfy and endless lust than a man who is known only with the given suffix The Great. The only logical quench for an infinite thirst, is an infinite drink and The Holy Spirit is our fountain.
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