True Power

The external power, control over entities outside of the person, that many people desire to yield is something that is far removed from actual power. As it stands the external power that so many men and women have clamored over has always been built on the shifting sands of perception over those they seek to control. There is no denying that such a power both exist and is useful for those who seek power but is only a fraction of the actual power that is possessed by the individual; the internal power of one’s own mind. This internal power is that which, by my own standards, is most useful and most likely to be possessed by man. You see, with external power, there is a degree of uncertainty that can only be reinforced by fear and manipulation both of which exhaust resources and time. Even if one successfully obtains their external power through such means there is no certainty of the power that you obtain. External power obtained in these manners are limited within the realm of freedom setting the stage for detractors which serves to exhaust even more resources. In the end, the final goal for those who seek external power is totalitarianism as it is the only way to ensure the longevity of those who possess said power. When we present this concept out in such a format it seems like a zero-sum game but there a many who take on this goal as the pinnacle of a man’s achievements. To conquer the minds and bodies of a collective whether active or passive has never been an aim of my own, partly due to my own philosophy and partly to my own laziness. At either rate, the only thing that I seek is control over myself and the freedom that brings with it. One is never free at the top of a collective food chain, in fact, he is most undoubtedly the least free of all.

A man, a true individual, understands the important connection between freedom and internal power. Through this understanding, the allure of external power never entices such a man. Instead, the possession of internal power offers the ability to not only make your own decisions but to recognize the responsibility that comes with the possession of any sort of power. No cosmic or divine intervention simplifies the justification of one’s own ability and desires via accountability and reason. Within the realm of external power, this process is often ridiculed as the ideas of the masses is adhered to with little consciousness taking place in the minds of those affected. The perception of external power even rules over those to which it serves, making them only as strong as the misguided truths they feed to their subjects. Essentially, the power becomes entirely too much for one man to possess for an extended period of time. Such a tactic is easily manipulable allowing for the destruction of the person who holds the external power.

The man in possession of internal power, or intellectual fortitude, has no concerns for perceptions. He does not lose himself at the behest of others or for one single idea as it is understood by him that the world exists outside of the paradigm of what we desire. Though there are risks just like with pursuing external power, there is the possibility of a reward that is seemingly unfathomable until one possesses it. Realizing one’s own utility frees a man from the shackles of conformed opinions allowing one to pave a new road to new possibilities. It is this internal power that almost every great innovator of any industry has recognized; it is what separates the free from the slave. The man of internal power accepts rewards of both his rewards and his pitfalls owning the entirety of both. It is to live and die by that which you found your principles on. Everything that this man truly owns, his internal power, cannot be taken away nor truly replicated. Just you try and take the internal power of a true man. You will only be met with the fortitude that will strike fear like none other. Either fear of the man of himself or the unknown potential that no man of external power has the stomach to stand. Instead, the man of external power will squash the man of internal power with a reverence that will undoubtedly stink of fear.

Now I know what you are thinking – The man of internal power is above instilling fear upon his fellow man, so how can one justify the fear that is instilled into the man of external power?

Those in possession of internal power are not intending to cause such fear of their intellect, it is that the man of external power is only able to view other men within the slave-master paradigm. It is yet another example of the shackles that he shares with the men he so vehemently seeks to control via his external power. Do you see now how miserable such an existence can be? From the top down every component of the external power structure is enslaved at varying degrees. And a slave of external power can never understand the freedom of a man of individual internal power.