The quest for power and dominance is fueled by a fear of intimacy.
When we expose ourselves, and allow ourselves to be vulnerable in front of people we'd otherwise attempt to bend to our will, we avoid loneliness. We find love and kinship. We connect.
By shutting off those impulses, we surround ourselves with a giant moat of emotional impenetrability, and we are alone.
So, a byproduct of dominance is an incessant, abiding sense of alienation.
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