Power

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." --God, Futurama

Its interesting, somebody said to me the other day “You’ll never have power, because you never try to get it” and I think that’s a great line. I like it, because it just shows what people believe power is.

I guess power is the superiority over something. But how can you define being superior over something? You could say im superior over this computer, because I can tell it what to do. It obeys my every command to the full extent of its power, right? If I tell it to do something, it goes and does it (or tries to, ‘illegal operation’ my arse!)
So lets say that somebody asked me to do something and I did it at the full extent of my ability, do they have power over me? If I try and do something for somebody when I am asked, does somebody have power over me? When you look at it like that, you think “of course not, you’re just helping them” but there are many people who believe that this shows lack of strength and therefore loss of power.

Is that what things have come to? You can’t do things for people anymore without power being bestowed on the maker. The line “Hey, can you get that for me?” followed by “no way! You get it yourself!” is way too common in my belief. But the problem doesn’t lie in people not doing things for others, its that when people do end up doing things for others think that they have power. People that can get others to do things for them start to order people around and act all superior and it’s a terrible waste; people are too stuck in the square.

True power is never seen. True power is when you exert force without exerting force. Im not saying I have true power, I don’t. But I know what it is and I know when its used.

When true power is exerted, people won’t know anything has been done at all.