Power attracts dicks, total power attracts total dicks

For those who worship power - as governments - and those attracted to positions in government - and militaries especially - do -- For them there is only one possibility: Conquer or be conquered. Theirs is a paranoid world of will-to-power and selfish manifest destiny whose endless terror can only be violently grappled with in an effort to come out on top, using whatever skills and tricks one can devise to stay there as long as possible, king of the human pile for just that much longer... Life is a competition, hierarchy is the nature of existence, brutality is a necessary prerequisite to rising to the top. Were it in my power, I would elide such aggression from the gene pool and render Humanity far more cooperative in nature. I do not believe that this is an absolute truth - a necessary and inescapable, inevitable future that must be prepared for. Rather, this is the expression of a sick, paranoid culture that is unable to choose peace over strife. Theirs is the road to global death. It is the one we're currently on, and accelerating towards an armageddon that is indeed inevitable should we fail to mature past this arrested development outlook on life: this zero-sum-game. I am not especially hopeful, but I will never agree that theirs is an inevitable vision of Humanity, nor does it hold one ounce, one scrap of honor or virtue - it is simply mental and emotional illness and stupidity beating its own chest. Trump - is an excellent face of this vision, this philosophy. We can be better than this. But it is going to take many of us get on board with a better vision, to pursue cooperation, radical equality, and a healthy vision for humanity's future on this space-ball. I hope you'll all join me. For if we continue to let the sociopaths and militarists and deranged competitors rule, theirs will indeed be our only future. It may even be too late for our race of Homo Sapiens already. But if there is any chance, any chance at all, it is in many of us becoming the adults in the room and leading by example, changing the course of our future history, together, cooperatively.