Powerful Men so Miserably in Love
I call those men as powerful who have the power to twist and turn reality to suit their ends. They are men who have the ability to inspire and even manipulate people to achieve their ends. They are equally admired, envied and hated by the throng, the average men. Anyone in the throng would love to be where these men are but they just haven’t the power in them.
But God when he created the powerful men, did not want to leave the throng to feel that God was partial. So He made these men so powerful that when it came to the issue of love they were the most miserable.
The powerful men having been so used to changing reality to suit their wants and needs get baffled when it comes to love. Love is always a mystery to them, a mystery that haunts them day in a day out. Love is something they never get to understand, everything else they understand and can manipulate, but against love, they are completely powerless.
They are unable to accept their powerlessness and try to get more powerful only to realize that it does not work as they expect it to.
Having been used to forcing people their way, they presume love works that way only to realize that Love is the one thing that can never be forced. The only thing that can bring about love is the giving up of ones own self for the others sake. But the powerful man will never be able to give ones self up. No. Never. So he tries a lot of other means only to find that he fails again and again.
The movie Citizen Kane (1940), the movie that ranks the first in the American Film Institute (AFI), brings out this concept so beautifully. In the movie Charlie Kane is the Powerful man, a media conglomerate who loves the power that he welds in shaping public opinion. He makes everyone think what he wants to think. He loves it.
There is one thing he cannot do, he cannot make anyone love him. He wants everyone to love him his way, without he having to give any of his up. But he fails. He then attempts to use his power and money to buy love, but he realizes that he ends up buying pleasure seekers not lovers. Once their hedonistic needs are satisfied, they elope leaving him lonely in his powerful world.
Citizen Kane was a movie based on a real life character William Randolph Hearst I who was a media mogul living in America in the early part of 20th centaury.
When I was reading about the charismatic CEO of Oracle Corp, and the fifth richest man in America, Larry Ellison, I found some amazing parallels. Larry Ellison is a powerful man who loved to twist reality to suit his ends. He rose in fame and riches, he lead a flamboyant lifestyle.
Nevertheless his had one inexorable need, the need for love. He was married and divorced thrice. He had so many famous affairs with so many beautiful women. His houses were most beautiful and his yachts and jets were spoken off by the rich and powerful.
He concedes to an interviewer that his great need was for a strong marriage; his reason for one he says is for the need for shared experiences. He called his third wife with whom he had two kids just to tell her how lonely he felt in his big beautiful house. He wanted love but he wanted it his way. He presented his first wife with a Benz many years after their divorce, all she said was that she was glad that she got the Benz and not him.
How so miserable the love lives of such Powerful men is.
But God when he created the powerful men, did not want to leave the throng to feel that God was partial. So He made these men so powerful that when it came to the issue of love they were the most miserable.
The powerful men having been so used to changing reality to suit their wants and needs get baffled when it comes to love. Love is always a mystery to them, a mystery that haunts them day in a day out. Love is something they never get to understand, everything else they understand and can manipulate, but against love, they are completely powerless.
They are unable to accept their powerlessness and try to get more powerful only to realize that it does not work as they expect it to.
Having been used to forcing people their way, they presume love works that way only to realize that Love is the one thing that can never be forced. The only thing that can bring about love is the giving up of ones own self for the others sake. But the powerful man will never be able to give ones self up. No. Never. So he tries a lot of other means only to find that he fails again and again.
The movie Citizen Kane (1940), the movie that ranks the first in the American Film Institute (AFI), brings out this concept so beautifully. In the movie Charlie Kane is the Powerful man, a media conglomerate who loves the power that he welds in shaping public opinion. He makes everyone think what he wants to think. He loves it.
There is one thing he cannot do, he cannot make anyone love him. He wants everyone to love him his way, without he having to give any of his up. But he fails. He then attempts to use his power and money to buy love, but he realizes that he ends up buying pleasure seekers not lovers. Once their hedonistic needs are satisfied, they elope leaving him lonely in his powerful world.
Citizen Kane was a movie based on a real life character William Randolph Hearst I who was a media mogul living in America in the early part of 20th centaury.
When I was reading about the charismatic CEO of Oracle Corp, and the fifth richest man in America, Larry Ellison, I found some amazing parallels. Larry Ellison is a powerful man who loved to twist reality to suit his ends. He rose in fame and riches, he lead a flamboyant lifestyle.
Nevertheless his had one inexorable need, the need for love. He was married and divorced thrice. He had so many famous affairs with so many beautiful women. His houses were most beautiful and his yachts and jets were spoken off by the rich and powerful.
He concedes to an interviewer that his great need was for a strong marriage; his reason for one he says is for the need for shared experiences. He called his third wife with whom he had two kids just to tell her how lonely he felt in his big beautiful house. He wanted love but he wanted it his way. He presented his first wife with a Benz many years after their divorce, all she said was that she was glad that she got the Benz and not him.
How so miserable the love lives of such Powerful men is.