Powerlessness.

It's interesting how hatred is tied up with powerlessness.

I've thought this before. I mean, people often hate the enemy they can't defeat. This is what's interesting about finding out about how much hatred people have. You can see it, when people gang up on someone that they've deemed "the enemy" and pour out their hatred onto that person.

A common enemy unites people. When you can focus hatred on someone outside yourself, it means you don't have to look at your own self defeating behaviours. That's another thing I learned from playing the evil one on GU. By being the focus of hatred, I could see who really had a proper sense of what was going on.

It's odd, the way we defeat an enemy. I mean, we can only ever defeat someone through their weaknesses, so in effect we have the choice to do something when we could, in fact, help or save that enemy. That's why the most effective fighters have actual sympathy for their enemies. That's why they have compassion, and don't actually want to fight.

This is what's so interesting about the phenomenon of power. A truly powerful person has no need to use the power. Only the powerless crave it. Yet, bizarrely, power is just a state of mind.

Isn't that something?!