In the early stages there is the jostling and the
manipulation, the peer-to-peer challenges when
the venue of choice is the sportsfield, then the
fraternity and the opportunity to exert a different
type of power through exclusivity, blackballing
those who fail to meet the criterion of exceptional.
Narcissism, a trait associated with inner focus
can be shared equally among mere opportunists
viewing themselves as leadership-quality candidates
for high office. The power to control, to manipulate
equally attractive to the social deviants viewing
others through a sinister dark lens of disdain. At
the height of political achievement accomplished
political leaders of developed economies vie to
outdo one another even as some among them nurse
bitter grievances linked to territorial imperatives. It
becomes reality that at the pinnacle of power added
to widely-sought resources an irenic nation led by a
psychopath trades in threats and grudges, coldly
calculating no power can stand between his goals
achieved by plunder, destruction and mass murder
given his possession of bountiful energy resources
backstopped by reasonable fears of provoking in
the monster a rage so fierce nuclear conflict looms.
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