5.17.2009

Power without intelligence

Lately it has become increasingly obvious for me that there are far too many people out there with undeserved authority. People with the ability to dominate and control others without an ounce of respect and knowledge to actually make good for it. There's a wide variety of these people too. They may be alcoholics or drug users whose intelligence has been damaged enough to make them think that they know everything or whose senses have been dulled enough for them to act upon their emotions more often without being hindered by fear or guilt. The end result usually being that they act like complete assholes without shame and often step on the boundaries of what is socially acceptable, often at the expense of others.

The other kind, who are even worse and the reason I wrote this, are all these rich kid brats. People who only have power because they were born with it and a heap of cash. How can you possibly expect them to act responsibly when they were just given what could very well be the heart's desire of the common man. Yes given, because no one deserves to simply HAVE endless wealth, power and resources upon birth. This person may be your boss. A person whose only merit in life was that he has a dad with more fame and money than yours. This is a person who might very well control large parts of your life without having the slightest idea of what it's like to be a common man, yet acts like he's somehow better than all of us.

I've gotten sick and tired of people like this lately. Always intruding in my life. Trying to tell me what to do despite not having earned even an ounce of the priveledge and experience needed to govern others fairly. 

Scholars (such as teachers) tend to be better at this. Why? Because they actually have to work for a position. Because they actually have to educate themselves in order to get a job. Because they usually govern based on knowledge, experience and with a better sense of their own position in the world. 

As an example
Personally I'd like to think of myself as a good Tekken player, maybe even a sort of scholar in the subject. I played Tekken with teachers on my school and younger girls on the same school. I've played total scrubs, average players and tournament winners. I've dominated some opposition and suffered humiliating defeats to others. I've studied FAQs, spent endless hours just practicing and learning the lingo. I've made my own Asuka blogg where I try to pass onto others what I've learned in my matches and so on.

The point is that everything I have and everything I am on the Tekken scene is what I earned. I can't defeat the top players of the world because I didn't invest as much time as them but I can beat casual players like drums because I'm much more serious than they are. I wasn't born with the arcade stick in  my hand and an awesome knack for Tekken, I had to fucking train, a LOT.

Because you're not born with skills like that, you always have to work for them. No exceptions. So just because you're born with an authoritarian personality and a lof of money it doesn't make you a great leader. Quite the opposite in fact, you're born into being a SHITTY leader just like everyone else! You start out with blank slate, no exceptions, and all that money and authoritarian personality isn't going to make you any better at anything! Because guess what, without a fucking ladder to climb you're not going to get anywhere!

So fuck you, brats of the world. Try making a living without a home for two months and then see if you've actually earned any of the priveledges you enjoy. You all make me sick.