Thursday, April 27, 2006

Power Play (continued from the Law of Retribution)

In my previous writing, it looks like that we need something more to create a better society. It's just that the reward and punishment paradigm is rooted too deep within our society. Almost all relationship is determined by reward and punishment. The management "bestow" the worker adequate-another word for money only enough to buy meager daily meal-pay, only when they have done their work well, your parents give you allowance when you behave, and of course Santa will bring you gifts in red sock if you behave. Our government also wants us to behave, and then they provide us. Childish, childish, childish...

This kind of relationship is a relation between a master and a servant, the one that has power and the one that is powerless, the oppressor and the oppressed, the tyrant and the slave. The masters will always try to keep the subordinates at bay, by making they believe that they must be grateful that the masters have done a noble job by governing them, and providing them. But the reality is, they want to keep their power.

The whole incidence in the world now can be explained using power play. There are no such thing as good and evil, the only thing that is real is power play (borrowing from Nietzche). The ones those have power can monopolize on what is-they think-is good, and the others as evil.

It impossible to build a fair and just world if all the components in the society do not possess the same bargaining position. The stronger will force the weaker one to follow their term. It is our obligation and destiny to make this world an even playing ground for all of the people, if we dream a better world.

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