To Desire To Control Others

You might whine and complain that you are a frustrated idealist and do-gooder, incensed because others do not obey you, and do not work live according to your moral and political orders. You are frustrated that you are stymied, and you would give your right arm to posses the power and authority to compel others to be more ethical, smarter, stronger as you envision. Well, it is never going to occur, so you might as well outright abandon your philosopher king gambit—it is doomed to failure. We can use torture, threats, violence and murder to compel other to obey, but they will not be self-realizing if you wield total power over them. If you are a moral, honest and knowing person, you will come to realize and accept that you can change no one else, that they will change only if they will it and work hard at it. You can only change yourself, and, again, as the frustrated intellectual that you are just hankering to have power over others, to force them to think, speak and act as you prescribe, you complain that this state of affairs is so limiting. I am here to inform you that you are not limited at all, if you elect to liberate yourself, once you choose to make the world a better place by improving yourself, changing yourself, maverizing along the lines of egoist morality, You can construct miraculous changes, transformative and revolutionary, perhaps spearheading an aesthetic and moral renaissance for your generation.