Lets take a power trip..

"The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others..."

I'm kind of curious about the kind of person who is granted power, just to abuse it? Usually, someone who has worked their way up the ranks of labor, and earned their position of power by achievement, tend to be humbled and proud to get to a top ranking position. The opposite of that would may be a dictator with pride taking advantage of the role. This is most of the time, but not always. The people with power that abuse it, tend to be the ones who didn't earn anything, they were just given too much of it. Examples of this may be, nepotism, or favoritism, or even fucking your way to the top, later realizing-that won't keep you there. If you haven't played the position of a subordinate at some point in your line of work, it can be kind of hard to identify with the people you want to control so badly.

Do you know someone like this?

We all do. Dealing with people like this can sometimes be just a really long bitter fight, all because they have a sense of entitlement given to them by the same person who gave them power. But I have learned not to give them any more of it. I am the only one who is ultimately decisive over my reality. Not an over grown child in a management position. I'm no doctor, but this blog is what I see from my personal experience with someone who suffers from the "Power abuse syndrome". People who abuse their authority are in a fraudulent state of control. People who have no direction or control of their own life, will always want to command others and keep them beneath them in roles of potential. Someone who has earned their right to delegate and be a leader has respect for the work ethic and wouldn't corrupt it because of their own personal issues.

That would be the next question..why do people abuse their power? Who the fuck are these people that harm or exploit others? Just because they are fortunate to have been given, related to, or sexual with the real position of power, doesn't mean maltreatment should be involved. Maybe that's what it is. Knowing that the power you were given, was given to you by someone greater than you, and it is probably unattainable by you. Or maybe, just maybe, we are dealing with some child hood issues? Neglect? Or, how about my favorite reasoning.."Narcissistic Personality Disorder". That's is when one is extremely preoccupied with themselves. Major self-importance issues. It makes perfect sense why someone like this would abuse a position of higher rank. They don't want anyone else to be more important and/or more successful than them, because God forbid..someone else becomes important.

So how does one stop a person who takes advantage of an inherited, unearned, force?

Nothing.

What do you possibly think you can do to stop a bull in a china shop from breaking everything around them? Even at a bull's most calmest state, it is an over sized raging animal that has been placed in a position where it does not belong and anything it touches, breaks. Eventually, these people who have to constantly flex to prove their position will shatter everything around them. You know, the karmic energy and all that blah blah blah, will definitely catch up. Remember, their power is ADOPTED. The person who gave it to them is likely to have been the person who birthed it. They are the only ones who can take it away. So, when in the midst of a raging bull, don't think your moral conduct can stop it, a power tripper won't acknowledge ethics, if they don't even know such ethics exist.

P.S. Kissing ass, showing fear, not standing up for yourself, or doing things you have no business doing, just because an authoritative figure told you to, are ALL ways of giving someone too much power. :o)