Curse of Kingship One of the most inherent and primal instinct and pleasure that any thinking creature, particularly human has is the instinct to control oneself and its environment. Conversely one of the highest fear that human possess is the fear of being a puppet of somebody else, to be completely at the mercy of somebody else's whims and unable to sever such chains despite all his/her efforts. If aforementioned arguments hold ground then, it inevitably becomes a zero-sum game where one's pleasure and gain inevitably leads to others loss and pain. Politics or any other ambition of kingship requires one to voluntarily enter and embrace into this zero-sum equation. With the full knowledge of acceptance of being a human like creature and yet severing oneself from humanities basic tenets of care, compassion, dignity and pride. To be a cunning fox and to deceive or even grovel if req...