Power is a double-edged blade. · 3:33pm May 22nd
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 and ruthless cycle repeats. I guess one could afford to be a little arrogant when they have all the power without reproach. 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.” By the way, I suggest reading 1984 if you haven't already; it's very grimdark but also a good read.
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 dressed 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 others around you that you’re going mad, using flying monkeys to their advantage. 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.)
As Wesker eloquently says, "The only thing that defeats power is more power; that is one constant in this universe."
And Tom Riddle says, "There is no good and evil; there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
Could they be onto something?