Pain...

nHaving that power that you don't want to use. Knowing something you didn't want to. Hearing the very thing you'd wished you wouldn't have to. Knowing that you would hear what you didn't want to. Knowing that you would come to it. Knowing that it was right. Like the soothsayer predicting his own death. Knowing that the undesirable will happen. Knowing that you are helpless against it. Knowing that pain is coming. Knowing that it will meet you on the very path on which you are walking. Knowing and still walking on it. Knowing pain when you see it. Knowing that you twitch with it. Knowing yourself. As you are. As things are. Knowing yourself without yourself. The bane of human intelligence. The Tipping Point.

By the way...

The only reason most modern systems of government, like democracy, don't work, is because they can't. Power should always be bestowed to the one who doesn't want it. Because then he can't misuse it. Democracy, the middle path, the welfare state, can't do that. Even in the dynastic monarchy, you have an outside chance. But with our systems, there is none.