Power is a double-edged sword

xombiekilla
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

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Power: The beginning and end-all of everything. It starts with someone taking control and ends when someone else takes that control away before the endless cycle repeats. I guess one could afford to be a little arrogant when they have all the power without being questioned. Moderators and admins are often guilty of this.
They are arrogant, selfish, and uptight, especially when they know they can punish you for any reason. George Orwell was correct in his thesis regarding authoritative power: “Power corrupts, and absolute power will corrupt absolutely; great men are almost always bad men, especially when they exercise influence by authority, and even more so when you superadd the tendency or certainty of corruption by authority.”
It’s hard not to notice this when you see it in almost every group you’re in—tyranny disguised as civility. Just a bunch of wolves in sheep’s clothing; they call you crazy because they don’t want you to say these things since it challenges their sensitive egos—narcissists hate this specifically. I’ve done a lot of research on narcissism, and it is indeed worse than mere arrogance.
So because they cannot, for whatever reason, face this ignoble truth, they try to gaslight you by making it look like you’re crazy? Is that the best that power-hungry despots can do? They know you’ll never fall for their act, so they try to convince you and others around you that you’re going mad. While it is true that I’m certainly mad, it’s for an entirely different reason.
They’re all basically a bunch of Percey Weasleys—the classic Discord Moderator personified in a story, except, to his credit, even he decided to settle down on his stickler attitude and began to be good where it counted. Percy was the most disliked in his family because he was so power-hungry. (For those of you who read Harry Potter, you’ll know who I’m talking about.)
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