Politics is the only career you enter without qualifications and leave without a diploma. However, political power cannot be improvised. But you can become a blacksmith by forging if even at the start you didn’t think you were cut out for it. It would be written somewhere in the stars, in the destinies, this project of becoming a public man, a political animal at whatever period of our existence. This is the difference that is revealed between living and existing.
Life is a biological process of constant becoming common to living beings in general. Animals and plants that take time to develop undergo mutations from birth to death.
TO EXIST IS TO MANIFEST ENERGY This time designates the difference between the organic which is structured over time and the inorganic. Rock, for example, remains the same despite the passage of time. To exist is to manifest a certain energy which produces an impact on those around you, both on beings and on things. It is the subjective experience with other humans and the objective experience with objects. In both cases, man always experiences in the reality of this influence a feeling of power, of power. This power to modify what can be part of the course of time which is materialized by the abundance of promises during electoral campaigns. Promises which only have an effect to the extent that they are credible and thus underline the power of the candidate. We must already highlight here a particular behavior of the voter. It is said that the voter is free to choose among the candidates who put themselves forward. There is no doubt about this, and in the voting booth, he finds himself alone facing his own conscience weighed down by his freedom. But this freedom is made up of an empty space to furnish, of free time to organize, of a potential that must be able to invest and return productive. If common sense is the most widely shared thing in the world, the capacity to structure, to make this freedom productive and profitable is far from being the same for everyone and the leader, the leader, would be the one who is seen as the most capable of taking charge of the freedom of others after having himself assured his own by mortgaging it with that of others. This freedom in the name of which so many crimes are committed does not seem so easy for everyone to manage. Because it generates a certain anxiety, if we have not acquired the intellectual and psychological necessary to know how to use it wisely. Most often, we get rid of it into the hands of the first person who comes along, just as we entrust our money to our banker to make an investment, with the hope of a return. This is how we generate the Potentates who “manipulate these situations where the individual is surprised that the decisions do not always fit with his interests. Democracy would be to manage this common mortgage of freedoms in the interest of all. Inevitably, this management power of attorney given to the elected official by the newsletter voting induces in him a feeling of power which places him above the fray.
A POWER OF ATTORNEY TO MANAGE OUR FREEDOMS It is also interesting to note that such power is confused with a particularly sexual power that certain peoples try to materialize in their leader by demanding of him to take several wives and also to have many descendants… It is most often recorded in the oral tradition of these primitive peoples that a sexually impotentproven must be removed from the tribal throne. This impact of the politician’s existence is part of his deep desire and preoccupies his imagination. Is he also the object of his dreams? This is quite possible. It must be recognized that the analysis of the behavior of the politician for those who have never been in the arena can only be professional. Perhaps the psychoanalysts of politicians could tell us more?
Considering only the political power conferred by the ballot, would this be ignoring a system very particular to France? The nurseries of men of power are established in large institutions such as, for example, the École Polytechnique, the École Nationale d’Administration, the École des Sciences Politiques, etc., where one takes the “elevator to the castle” at the age of 23 and continues one’s merry way despite successes or failures. It is a lifelong mark by academic results which unfortunately sterilize the spirit of creativity and progress. This is the elite senior officials who actually hold political power, especially in France, being born or qualified to lead, they rarely submit to the verdict of the ballot box and thus practically develop a hidden indifference to the evolution of the “social”. Their own rise becomes a religion and respect for money an unacknowledged or rather disavowed priority. currently the journalistic chronicles.
A TASTE FOR POWER: A LEGACY It is therefore the power conferred by the diploma which does not support any criticism or questioning. We are part of a privileged group who must also be able to put in place the conditions to achieve a heritage that characterizes their success. And their children are also ideally suited to take over. Thus we observe the truth of the popular saying which states that “the father being an eagle, the son is a falcon and the grandson a real one”…
Those in power always come from the same background, with a few rare exceptions, who moreover quickly take on the habit of infallibility which excludes any dialogue with the base. The latter being considered ignorant of what can happen in the High Spheres. As we would say in little Negro “among the big ones above, above”.
This lack of dialogue leads to frustration among the people. Frustration of non-participation in the formulation of decisions concerning one’s future. This can only be expressed in riots, and more prosaically in strikes of which France has a sad record of frequency. Strikes being part of the French way of life like the baguette; the gallon of big red and the Basque beret. There are certainly the elected representatives of the National Assembly. But don’t they give the image of “a great one above” from the moment they become aware of their power? Doesn’t this power inevitably create a distance between the elected official and the voters? Ultimately, the behavioral consequences of political power arise from this innate human tendency of a desire for transcendence, to be more than the other. The political train offers favorable ground for the accomplishment of this aspiration, whether by means of training or even birth. But in any case, one does not exclude the other.
Even if one comes into the world under the lucky star, it is still up to the individual to make a choice. This is thechoice of the political thing which is sometimes imposed on the holders of the power of money. There is often a strong tendency to demand recognition of the belly from those who benefit from the windfall of development. This is the dilemma faced by the behemoths that are the leaders of multinationals in order to reassure the people in order to preserve what has been achieved. It is then cold political power. He is no longer in lace and the rigor of the figures becomes words of the Gospel. For them, unemployment is only an epiphenomenon meaning Pruning the useless branches of a tree, for the company, keeping the essential interesting and prolific.
Thus, the rewarding dimension of man through work does not concern them. It is the “exploitation” of the worker and his production that constitutes their priority, in general. It would be utopian to take this data into consideration in stock market quotes.
In conclusion, the behavioral consequences of political power obey to their own laws. Whatever the origin of this power, it would inevitably distort its holder. For Haitians, a professional who enters politics loses his title in the eyes of the inhabitant. He is no longer a doctor, notary or lawyer. “Vox populi” perhaps? Still, absolute power corrupts absolutely
Dr. Raymond M. JOHNSON Doctor -Psychiatrist-Psychoanalyst
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