I sense there’s a growing feeling among many people, that they - and the vast majority of humanity - are mere spectators to the actions of ‘Great Men’. You wake up in the morning and see what the Great Men have decided to do with your life. Even the supporters of those men seem to take on a passive role of cheering them on, or interpreting their actions like soothsayers interpreting the bones This sense of passivity is mirrored in the psyches of the Great Men, who live under the illusion that their own actions do indeed shape the world, that they are god-like deities that can single-handedly reshape a complex system, rather than being mere outcomes of that system One thing you should always know about gods, though, is that we create them. We enter into the illusion that our collective agency is actually an external being, and then talk about that external being as the one in control. When that external being happens to be an actual human, they might come to believe the projection, thinking that they actually are an omnipotent god-king. That isn’t a sign of strength on their part - that’s a sign that they are too weak to overcome the illusion projected upon them, and have been engulfed by it