There is a masochistic side to most of us. We all love displays of power. Power feels real and substantial, somehow. People with poor self-knowledge tend to deny this drive in themselves; but if you watch their actual behaviors, their self-deceit becomes apparent. In fact, the deniers of power tend to be the most hysterically power hungry. Anarchists and moralistic far lefties come to mind. Power is very erotic, and in our fantasies, erotic or not, we display it in different forms: unhindered, determined agency, being in the right, showing great conviction, putting up heroic resistance,
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