The Mentality Of Power.

September 11, 2024

Power mongering is a disconnect from objective reality. The purpose in mongering power is to shortcut the process of winning. Otherwise, the responsibilities for constructivity are complex and demanding; and with ever increasing technological complexities, the demands get very abstract and absorbing. Not meeting those demands is as accidental as deliberate, when not focussed on meeting the demands.

The demands of constructivity require aligning upon the objective realities of the universe that define life and solutions to problems, which is rationality. Therefore, the shortcut to winning is a conflict with rationality resulting in power mongers fighting a war against rationality, particularly since rationality exposes incompetent power mongers as the corrupters that they are.

Defying the demands of constructivity is blissful compared to meeting them, which causes power mongers to assume mongering power is a superior process to producing rationality. But it gets worse than that. As power mongers defy constructivity and fight a war against rationality, they put themselves in conflict with constructive and rational existence, which creates problems most significantly for vulnerable persons who need problems to be solved.

Therefore, one of the most significant characteristics of power mongers is a war against the lower classes. It's why corporations refuse to pay significant taxes, while they heavily depend upon government and take over control of the government. You would think corporations would love to pay taxes for that reason; but they violently refuse to pay taxes, because they assume the lower classes need social programs by the government.

So power mongers want government to exist as a force but not a problem-solving structure, which of course means a totalitarian dictatorship (being called an autocracy in the media). Power mongers don't care how absurd autocratic totalitarians are, because they are disconnected from reality-based existence and want to use force to bowl over opponents. Force gets them there in destroying the rationality that gets in their way and exposes them as the incompetent corrupters that they are.

The imaginative nature of synthesizing human existence disconnected from objective reality is shown by this quote:

October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

The person was saying that when his bunch acquires enough power, they can defy reality in addition to everyone else and that state was some sort of godly superiority.

Being an empire was needed to break into the fantasy world devoid of objective realities. It takes power to overwhelm rational existence.