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 required and yet strike mercilessly and ruthlessly like a lion when it is opportune.
To appease for petty gains and to be unfaithful and ungrateful when the circumstance dictate so.

Such voluntarily indulgence into practises of competition of oneself and  others are what makes a  man able to sit on a throne, to become a king, an emperor.
by severing all the chains of humanity, one  earns the right to rule the humans and gains the aura, the title, the seat and seal of an emperor .
        
                                                                                   - Adarsh Singh