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The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally
unbearable to us when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less
power; everyone wants more. In the world today, however, it is dangerous to
seem too power hungry, to be overt with your power moves. We have to seem
fair and decent. So we need to be subdecongenial yet cunning, democratic yet
devious.
This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that
existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court. Throughout history, a
court has always formed itself around the person in powerking, queen, emperor,
leader. The courtiers who filled this court were in an especially delicate position:
They had to serve their masters, but if they seemed to fawn, if they curried favor
too obviously, the other courtiers around them would notice and would act
against them. Attempts to win the master's favor, then, had to be subde. And
even skilled courtiers capable of such subdety still had to protect themselves
from their fellow courtiers, who at all moments were scheming to push them
aside.
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