The Weak Shall Surrender the World

The Strong Will Direct It

The millennial generation grew up in a time period that will be studied for decades to come. We were heavily indoctrinated with messaging in all forms of media, parenting, and coaching (this includes teachers). We were taught that to seek-out power was the desire of evil. That seeking “power” strictly signaled a desire to manipulate those around them and to take advantage of people.

As if becoming successful inherently means you are a terrible person. This is what I intend to briefly expound upon. As it is at the very core of our society’s many, many problems today.

What Is Power?

Power is merely a representation of capability, of capacity to act.

Every single one of those definitions is a measure of potential energy under varying circumstances.

Resources Are Power

Power can come in the form of possessing or having access to resources like food, wood to build shelter or a fire, livestock to assist in processing the land, children to tend to the household chores, employees, soldiers, minerals in the ground to mine, oil, gas, etc. Purchasing power is very relevant here as well. Money can be used to gain access to any one of the aforementioned resources, so long as the individual willing to trade them desires your money in the first place. Or so long as the land that contains said resources is available to be developed in order to gain access to them.

Time Is Power

Another form of power is in having an excess of time. Another valuable resource. Having extra time gives one the capacity to let turbulence and volatility of an environment or situation settle before acting. This is particularly valuable for our species as we contain a system within ourselves that is integral to our being and can make handling volatile situations difficult to handle properly, emotions.

Emotions can often drive us to make foolish decisions, rather, the less optimal decision. Feeling like we are running out of time can push us to make rash decisions. Spiking our emotions and creating a sense of urgency. Which results in stress — a motivator towards action. One who has an excess of time can consume that time to allow for emotions to subside and return to a baseline where more controlled cognition can be utilized.

Wisdom is Power

Wisdom is a form of power. One who creates availability of time. To process. To observe. To let those overcome with urgency act rashly. Embracing conscious will and conscious action. Those acting quickly tend to make mistakes. Mistakes are opportunities for others capable of seeing and being capable of acting.

There are many, many forms of power. Most tend to be neutral, morally speaking. It is the wielder of power that determines its moral flavor.

The paradox of the American Millennial population in being raised into vilifying all who have access to power, in its many forms, and those who seek it, is that we still desire a leader. We still need a leader. A leader for our country, for our state, for our army, for our school, for our team, for our community, for our church, and for our household.

The paradox is that one cannot have a competent leader without that leader having power. Yet, that leader cannot just have power. This leader must have experience in wielding power. The likelihood for that individual to abuse their power rises exponentially without experience. Leaders who abuse their power tend to end up cannibalizing the system for their own immature, selfish gain.

The Weak Shall Surrender the World

Now we come to the discussion around those who demonstrate this vilification of the powerful. Regardless of what form they may take. The weak.

The weak have an inclination towards controlling their peers by making the acquisition of power in any form undesirable. Whether it’s out of insecurity or a true belief system, they are patently unaware of how they weaken both themselves and their communities by their own actions.

The weak still need leadership. But they run themselves into the proverbial wall as they avoid power—a prerequisite for leadership. One cannot be a leader in a community and still be considered an equal. Any Beatnik, ‘free soul’, or communist fool can try and argue against this, but it is a fact of reality. Leaders must be held to a higher standard than those at their command. Placing them above their subordinates on the hierarchy of authority.

It is the wisdom of the leader that behooves knowing that they are no better than their subordinates beneath them, that they are the very same flesh and blood as everyone else. The leader subjects themselves to the accountability of decision-making and the responsibility to make as best of an informed decision as possible for the good of the group.

It is for these higher standards, that the leader is placed in a social position that is higher on the totem than the rest. We look upwards, towards the King, to set the example. To set the bar high for the rest of the men to aspire towards. For the women to compete for that man, or one who embodies characteristics and power comparable to regal status. While a code of honor keeps such competition and comparison just and right.

Weak men and women do not produce such an effective society. They promote communes of equal outcome, which spit in the face of one developing themselves towards acquiring power for their own personal gain. As that would inspire competition through comparison of their peers — an innate nature to humanity.

The Vulnerability of Weakness

While still craving and needing leadership (as they by their nature lack the capability to lead themselves due to their intentional avoidance of acquiring their own power) the weak find themselves utterly leaderless. Plopping themselves squarely in a paradox of their own making. Needing a leader but demonizing all who possess the resources and capabilities to actually lead. Needing a leader who has experience being in command and has a track record of doing so to find success for themselves and their subordinates without taking things too far into tyranny or dictatorship.

This is why the weak always lose.

And always will lose.

The meek may inherit the Earth… The weak shall surrender it.