@Metzareph said
"power is not about enslaving. power is about liberating.
it's really a disgrace..."
Humanity and power are two different things.
Everybody lives a short ignorant little life, and they only think they are superman when they're drunk or on crack.
As far as the people who leech money and authority out of civilization, those guys aren't exactly "strong" either. He uses what other people, animals, plants and whatever else made, and it's usually squandered pointlessly aswel. Meanwhile his actual self is basically as "strong" as you or me, pluss a few technical social catalyst factors.
The pope has religious influence, he's a bit similar to a mayor or a governer, but that doesn't mean he's strong or superior. He's propagating an old religion and he's an old fart. He's weak and linear.
If we're talking about power in physical terms, the sun is power. Stars are power. They're large amounts of energy.
The philosophical term "power" as an ideal, is generally meaningless, because it suggests the overtaker as the superior, when in fact the most superior things exist in harmony which has no obstructions or needs and thus does not have to overtake or overcome anything.
People can't even choose how they are born, how their own life will go, etc. They can't choose whether or not they are going to get old and die, it's automatic. Their parents and the nature of everything around them is already so deterministic and automatic, that they can't overcome or choose any of it. Even master magicians still get ill, old, poor and socially disfunctional/lonely. Some of the strongest magicians I ever met, live unhappy little half-lives.
Now to combat the truth of the matter, we can enter into any number of delusions about divine and extremely important insects. Frankly vegetables are more important than mankind, that along with grass and trees, for those kinds of life support the whole ecosystem and have a greater natural purpose. Most people aren't ecology oriented either, so they don't even serve a natural purpose, nevermind a divine purpose.
Because humanity is such a genetic defect, a huge percent of the population is mentally ill. Oh yes, that's a fact. And that means people are going to fuck up all the time. So for the bill of rights and freedom, civilians wont rise up and defend it. Civilians aren't rising up to stop any problem, really. They're barely even able to handle the stress of daily life, therefor the mental burdon of active planetary or national responsability is completely out of their current capacity. After that they say it's all part of a higher natural necessity, or it's all in God's plan, or meant to happen, or whatever else, because they can't make it any better. In order to feel comfort, all kinds of ideologies are made up. That's probably the bulk of metaphysics right there : comfort and anthropic onanism.
