Power

[crystalineskier]

It’s amazing how much of my life is just simple problems in communication. The arguments, the fights, how a parent and a teenager only hear exactly what they want to hear and nothing more. When everyone’s right, there can be no one wrong, but inevitably someone falls into that category, and those people are the Machiavellian misfits. Those

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Reply to Nato

[crystalineskier]

And yet, if what you are talking about is a recurrent generation to generation after principle, where we are most like our grandparents, then our sons and daughters will most likely be like our parents. When you grow up in a household where your parents don't pay attention to you, you raise you kids where you pay too much attention. And then the kids will hate it, and when they grow up they will be more loose and less attention oriented towards their kids. And then, prehaps, the kids will see this as a ignorant parent who doesn't care, and then will vow to pay attention to their kids becasue it's what they lacked. Perhaps it is a parent to child cycle, in that you will be exactly opposite of what your parents were.

My article was more focused on the premier fact that intelligence and it's place in the world is not parallel with power, and that the influence of power leads to decisions not based with reasoning or intelligence but lanced thorugh and through with personal bias. When you have power, you DESERVE it, and most who think this believe that since they have this power, their ideas and motives are more pure and more right than anyone elses.