The Games of Power [Part 3]

The more difficult question is why we need ‘work.’ Very few people, after all, can be said to enjoy working, and as society becomes more complex and technological, and jobs are broken down into ever smaller specialties offering a constantly decreasing opportunity to be involved in the whole process, the number of people who enjoy their work is likely to decline even further.

Imagining myself in a company that is not the biggest in the community, least in industry, almost none recognizable on an international scale – gives me the chills of how invisible or little significance, Master Players who own multiple of such companies I work for is to them. What gives me confidence in my work is the study of Power and Leadership - which is an embodiment of Power itself.

When you begin to recognize Power, you too can start to play Power games within your own smaller circles. And with practice it gives you an added advantage even at your place of work.  

In an age when the Puritan work-ethic seems irrelevant, there are primarily 4 reasons for working. (i) Habit (ii) Pleasure (iii) Money (iv) Power

Habit is a significant factor. Most people are inclined to fall into steady work routine of work, simply because anything else would require imagination, invention and a spirit of adventure. Accepting the routine of work gives meaning order to lives that would otherwise be chaotic and unbearable.

It is not so much that people like work as that they fear having nothing to do and no place to go for 8 or more hours a day. How else to explain the depression that comes over men facing retirement, even in cases when they are leaving with a generous pension. Work is a habit-forming drug, and the habit is hard to break.  

With the exception of skilled craftsmen -a vanishing breed – few people work for pleasure. Most people do not mind working, but feel that it is both indecent and wasteful to enjoy it openly. Half the reason of working at all is the hold it gives us over other people.

 By contrast, people who are interested in Power know how to work, and usually work hard. They have a purpose beyond merely making money or filing up time, because they want their work to lead somewhere in terms of independence and self-satisfaction. Only the person who understands Power can extract the maximum benefit from his work, however skillfully it is performed.

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As you and I both know, there is all kinds of different “work” – take for example, sex work. The human preoccupation with sex is nothing new – but the internet has made it so much easier to explore and exploit every shade of desire. The Online Porn Industry makes billions of dollars in profit every year, but the big winners are Corporate Players, not the women and men performing the sex acts. Stephen Sackur interviewed Mia Khalifa on BBC – HARDtalk, on the 9^th of September 2019, under the theme “Porn is Not Reality.” She was a porn actress, garnering worldwide notoriety when she appeared in a sex video wearing the Islamic hijab. After years of threats and insecurity, she spoke out. Link Here: [https://youtu.be/i2qplvJ6SLs]. What does her story tell us about the Porn Industry and 21st Power Century Culture?

 And if you thought the Porn Industry was a multimillion-dollar Industry, check the stats again after the hit of the global pandemic – Covid 19; When the whole world was forced to stay and work from home, with very few exceptions. Like the Power Money Games, it is not even governments or banks that control the money being generated from these industries. What is baffling is that it is not even paid in hard cash but through Block Chain managed by Tech Companies who have shifted the Power-Balance from governments and banks into their own hands. Transforming medicine from the treatment of illness to the medication of modern life itself. In the large Skim of things, are these Power Games? Beyond our wildest imaginations as commoners?

 

Thank You! For reading this far. My hope is that the 3-part article has sparked something in you. And will cause the slightest change in your actions to obtain Power and total control over what is yours.