Understanding Our Will to Power

Your will to power can be directly linked to your inner desire for pleasure in these ways. Firstly there are 2 kinds of pleasures: the pleasure of the 5 senses and the pleasure of the mind, or the self centered ego. The pleasure of the 5 senses are self explanatory. Pleasures of the mind can be divided into 2 types. By using basic sadist and masochist pleasures I will attempt to explain the 2 not so different pleasures.

A sadist is one who finds pleasure in making others feel pain inflicted upon them by himself. It is the direct pleasure of seeing your influence in other people. The joys of parenthood is based on this experience. The joys of parenthood is actually the joy of looking at your child grow up to be like you, to think like you and to act like you. It is through this pleasure that you seek similar minded people for relationships. The feeling of looking at your influence on other people is undeniable, even I, am writing this post because I want you to be affected by it, be it positively or negatively.

Masochism is a very similar kind of pleasure. A masochist finds pleasure in pain inflicted upon himself by others. It is the pleasure one gets by eliciting a self-expected response from the inflictor by one's owns actions. It is the pleasure you get by manipulating others without them knowing you are manipulating them. Emotional people derive pleasure from such means, they pretend to be weak and expected to be treated with more attention and care by others, which they usually get, thus indirectly manipulating others into giving them what they want. The joy of altruism is too, derived from such means. The pleasure derived from altruism is such that you expect to be treated the way you treat others, in this case with 'goodness' or 'love'. This ethnic of reciprocity has been drilled into us since we were young. 'Good' be treated with goodness or rewards, 'bad' to be treated with punishment or badness. A simple way of illustrating that altruism is a form of self-interested pleasure: When you do charity, you usually will expect the same response from the people whom you are giving to, but what if he goes against what you expect him to respond? What if he starts to curse at you, or even attempts to kill you? You will no doubt feel displeasure.

Most if not all of our actions ultimately consist one if not both of these underlying pleasures. Now I will attempt to explain how the government supresses our natural will to power to satisfy their own desire for power. Unlike conventional means of control, which controls us by directly restricting our movement and actions for example: slavery, they attempt to control us by playing on our inner driven self desires. They encourage us to express ourselves through materialism along the lines of social norms. The interests of all the entities that you are under control of (government, religions, the military, educational institutions) are intertwined with corporate interests, and those entities also participate in the management of social expectations through mass media. They play on our inner desires by placing advertisements with subliminal messages everywhere and endorsing products with people with substantial power, thus making us desire those products as well because it now signifies our power. Associating these items with power makes us want to buy that item. By making us desire these 'powerful objects' and us getting what we want, we feel we are in control of our lives, we feel powerful, this is the illusion of freedom. In society, because they have suppresed our true destructive and violent selves, our desire to show our power is now our desire to make ourselves known to others. We have all become vain. Vanity is the fear of how we appear to others. Everyone is vain, no matter how un-vain you try to portray yourself to be. It is not only the media and advertisements that makes us want items. Government institutions can make us need something through laws or out of fear. For example: Education is compulsory and so is paying school fees. Or your doctor can tell you that you are sick although you are not to make you buy medicine. Thus began consumerism. Consumerism is how they keep us ignorant of our inner selves, and how they keep themselves in power. The whole basis of society is to keep us docile so we will not try to take control from them. However, there is one problem. The more we get what we want, the more we will expect to be given, or the more 'free' we become, the more freedom we expect to get.

No doubt after reading you will feel displeasure because I am asserting that all humans are inherently driven by the self-interest to desire and to destroy that which restricts us from desiring. It is only your ego trying to deny that you are 'bad'. But is it really a bad thing? It is only a society that makes it up to be bad. There is no such thing as a common 'good' or 'bad'. 'Good' and 'bad' things or actions are usually justified by each individual solely by his beliefs, and society is trying to impose its beliefs upon us. Thus, I tell you, do not fall prey to the tricks of those above and around you. Rise up! Do not be content with the illusion that they have imposed upon you! Unleash your true inner human desires upon this world! The person who is the most humane is the one who is most powerful! We can only desire true freedom if we are not restricted in anyway, not in the mind or in the body. And restriction is placed upon us only by other people, thus the only way of attaining true freedom is by destroying them. This is our will to power! Our biological imperative!