Why do they think power is so important?
Short answer: Power is an addiction and power addicts seek power because it triggers the same dopamine squirts in their brains that junkies trigger with heroin.
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TL/DR answer: There is only one addiction and it's (primarily) to dopamine.
The difference between addicts is how the dopamine is triggered. Some use heroine, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, other drugs and/or gambling to trigger the neurotransmitter. Others rely on the dopamine-induced survival behaviors that chimpanzees spend their days obsessing over. Abraham Maslow identified and called them deficiency needs (d-needs) for food, sex, safety (power), acceptance (approval, attention), and esteem (status).
Humans extended the list of addictive dopamine-triggers to include belief systems, video games, tanning, social media, and money. Money is especially addictive because it can easily be converted into drugs, food, sex, power, acceptance, status, and more money.
Since all addictions can be traced to a common source, the symptoms are the same = self-deception, denial, an indifference to the consequences and damage caused by the addictions, the inability to satisfy insatiable cravings, and an intransigent commitment to continue illogical, destructive, and dangerous behaviors (even when the addicts know their behaviors will result in misery and destruction).
As it turns out, the most common and destructive of all addictions aren't considered addictions. Instead, they're conveniently viewed as normal, acceptable, and even admirable behaviors. And at the top of the list of destructive unacknowledged addictions are money, esteem, and power addictions.
If this sounds simplistic it's because the primitive ancestors who got us into this mess were simple-minded primates who grew increasing addicted to dopamine and then passed down their addictions. Through the ages their increasingly clever progeny crafted webs of deceptions and denials that allowed them to indulge primitive proclivities (that made it possible to continue behaving like lowly animals while pretending they were high-minded humans). As a result, we're all born and indoctrinated into addictive societies where addiction is the norm and suggesting that all aberrant, destructive, and life-threatening behavior can be linked to unacknowledged addictions is considered so absurd that it's not worth considering.
Meanwhile, experts teach courses, crank out books, and offer convoluted theories to explain all the dishonesty, greed, theft, corruption, foolishness, and irrational behavior threatening our species' future while ignoring the answer staring everyone in the face.
Why? Because the last thing addicts are interested in "learning" is that we're addicts. Addictions are so powerful that power addicts care more about scoring dopamine squirts in their brains than the environments, species, economies, and lives they destroy.
Source:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people...etting-someone-to-give-you-something-you-want
