From the author: How do needs influence people’s behavior? This article makes an attempt to describe the manifestations in human behavior of the need for dominance (power), which is the basis for a despotic picture of the world. It seems to me that, on the basis of such descriptions, it will be possible in the future to develop scales for measuring the size of needs and the degree of their satisfaction. From the point of view of the need for domination, as a dependent and exploitative need, the world consists of despots and the plots belonging to them, with the means growing on them existence. Dominion is one-man rule, despotism, tyranny. Every despot admits that such a structure of the world is not ideal. Ideally, it should be that there is one ruler in the world, namely himself, and there is a world subordinate to him. All despots have a desire for unlimited domination over all things and are restrained only by either an approximate equality of power or superiority in power among other despots. Therefore, each of them recognizes himself as an absolute subject, and leaves to others the role of absolute objects, which are the property of the absolute subject. This is a monopoly (one-pole, one-center) picture of the world. Therefore, all other despots are enemies for each individual despot: those who are equal in strength are perceived as an undoubted enemy, and those who are superior in strength are perceived as the most dangerous enemy. There are no restrictions and no rules to fight them, because theoretically they shouldn’t exist, they are some kind of annoying misunderstanding, nothing more. The despot does not see a problem in loneliness, because he does not need anyone! On the contrary, he strives to remain alone in order to transform everything around him in his own way and not coordinate anything with anyone. A despot is a point creature, a single point in a boundless unknown space. And this point has the intention of absorbing, appropriating, all this space. He strives for unlimited freedom for himself and, therefore, for unlimited power over everything else. For a despot there is neither future nor past, since he is entirely in the present. He cannot create and therefore is very dependent on ready-to-eat food (in the broadest sense of the word). This is an absolute consumer. It is only adapted to absorb. And he can only live by absorbing. Because of this, he fiercely clings to any opportunity to maintain and increase his power. From his point of view life is the only value, no matter how difficult it may be and one must live at all costs. He doesn’t know how to navigate the situation and doesn’t trust anything or anyone, so he strives to drag the whole wide world into his hole in order to provide himself with supplies in case of possible troubles. And he expects troubles from everywhere. The despot is not inclined to knightly tournaments and other open clashes, especially in cases where his victory is not at all obvious. He will certainly submit to a superior force, but will never come to terms with it, because he believes that he should still be the most important. And this seems quite logical to him, since the despot has a peculiar logic, according to which everyone must obey him without complaint. He alone has the right to freedom. And he defends this right in every possible way. Defending his freedom by everyone else is perceived by him as blatant impudence and amazing illogicality. And it seems to him that someone’s superiority over himself is a completely incomprehensible absurdity. Despite all this, despots are very afraid of losing power and agree to significant concessions in order to preserve at least part of the power that they already have. If a obviously superior force is approaching him, he will turn into the most sophisticated pleaser and the sweetest flatterer, just to retain at least some power over something, of course, with the supreme supremacy of the owner of this superior force. And in his place he will diligently follow all instructions from above, and in order to show his loyalty to the supreme power, he will definitely overdo somethingwill overfulfill, bringing the execution of instructions to the point of complete absurdity. He will accept the most absurd instructions from above and will ignore the most reasonable objections from below. So, for all their menacingness, despots are cowardly creatures. Numbness of horror, panic, and senseless thrashing arise in cases where a despot perceives some events as a threat to his well-being. The despot values ​​his only life above all else. He is ready to endure a lot to preserve it. Within the framework of despotic logic, this is quite natural, although the forced submission of a despot greatly offends and humiliates. Failure to satisfy the need for dominance gives rise to black envy - the desire to throw those who have gone ahead to the very bottom of suffering. This encourages the offended person to invent all sorts of fables about the offenders, quarrel between them and secretly poison their lives by other available means, while continuing to clearly show them his unprecedented loyalty and readiness, no matter what, to carry out their instructions. At the same time, he continues to vigilantly monitor the actions of the main despot and as soon as he notices signs of fatigue, carelessness and other signs of weakness in him, he will immediately show insolence proportional to the decrease in strength of the main despot. In addition, in order to somehow restore self-respect, he also with greater passion he begins to oppress those who are weaker than himself. And then any resistance makes him furious. He yields to a superior force if it takes from him any of his property, but is very angry if any parts of his property are transferred to the service of other despots independently and voluntarily. Every despot behaves as if an agreement had been concluded between him and his property regarding the dominance of the former and the subordination of the latter. He takes all the rights for himself, and allows her to have all the responsibilities. If subordinates do not follow orders well, they can be punished. What is this punishment? First of all, it is deprivation of something important and pleasant. For example, for bad behavior at school, parents deprive their child of parental affection. One way or another, punishment always turns out to be associated with an increase in dissatisfaction with any needs of the punished. This can only be done with sufficient force, because without the use of force, punishing someone is a hopeless matter. Punishment is retribution for disobedience and, ultimately, represents ordinary revenge. Irritation can be considered moderate anger. Suppose that someone is tired in the evening and everything is falling out of his hands: he takes an envelope, and it falls out of his hand; takes a cap, but it clings to something, puts slippers on his feet and immediately trips, etc. Such arrogant disobedience will precisely cause irritation in this person. He will begin to make sudden movements and grumble, grumble and swear (“Some kind of lace dares to disobey me! And this pencil is still broken! And from the tap the water keeps dripping and dripping!”). If a despot discovers some kind of thing that is better than his, then he is surprised and indignant at such injustice. After all, all the best should belong to him alone. If this is possible, he will find a way to select the thing he likes. If he can’t take it away, he’ll try to steal it. The thought that someone lives better than him is unbearable for a despot. If he was unable to take it away or steal it, then he will try to spoil this ill-fated thing so that no one gets it. If this cannot be done, then there is still the possibility of discrediting, blaming, and slandering her. But even if a despot gets his hands on something he doesn’t need, it will also be difficult to transfer it to someone. If he borrows something, he will also delay repayment for years. This is a kind of bottomless abyss, falling into which things disappear irrevocably. And when a despot comes across ownerless things and he turns out to be their discoverer, or the owner of the thing is supposed to be, but he is far away, then the temptation is great to appropriate this thing, even if it cannot be attached to anything at all in a despotic economy. He hates the thoughtthat things can exist in the world without an owner, as if by themselves. And he is in a hurry to become their owner. But if he comes across several identical things and one of them has an owner, then the despot will be more pleased to take this thing away from him, despite the fact that he can easily appropriate all the others. The despot likes the very actions of violence against others and he is very upset and indignant if the victim resists. The need for power clearly places its owner at the very top level in the social hierarchy. He has no doubts about his sacred right to be there. That’s why he tries to command everywhere, even if he knows little about the matter. For him, much more important and useful is the art of arranging all kinds of intrigues, gossip, slander, compromising evidence in order to climb higher up the career ladder, eliminating all rivals (in the sense of enemies). Since despots themselves do not like to do anything other than organize intrigues and do not know how to do anything (which from the point of view of despotic logic is quite normal), they gather around them many assistants and advisers who must supply the missing knowledge. If they also turn out to be intriguers, then public administration turns into a phantasmagorical farce where incompetence flourishes and government decisions are made based on the narrowly personal, momentary career interests of their developers. Which dog is called evil? - Probably the one who rushes at everyone and tries to bite? What kind of person is called evil? - Most likely one that is always ready to cause destruction. An angry person easily decides to take actions that cause trouble to others. It seems that he enjoys causing trouble for others. He seems to be initially offended by everyone for something and is always ready to take revenge on occasion. As a rule, anger is taken out on the weak, even if it is the strong who are hated in the first place. But often, along with hatred of the powerful, the hater also has fear of the use of this force against himself. From this follows the suspicion inherent in all despots and the desire to frighten their real and imaginary enemies in advance. We can safely say that despots are definitely evil people. For them, victory means enslavement by the winner of the vanquished, and defeat means either slavery or death for the loser. Turning to someone with a request for a despot is also sheer torment. It is much more natural for him to command than to ask. So he asks his superiors quietly, so that no one notices, and then announces to everyone about his begged privileges as a sign of the greatest closeness and favor of the leadership towards him. It must be said that despots are extremely jealous creatures. Since they are terrible owners, they cannot forgive their belongings for anyone other than themselves to be interested in. They demand loyalty, diligence, and trust from their belongings in exchange for a promise not to torment them too much. They even agree to make some concessions to especially valuable servants until they find someone more meek and equally capable. They may even condescend to formalize their commands in the form of requests. In retaliation for this inconvenience, the despot will squeeze all the juice out of the servant, and then replace him with someone who is burning with passion to become a despot himself and is scattered in flattery and servility in front of him. The most favorite pastime of despots is bullying. They like to pursue a victim who is rushing about in horror and rage. It is they who incite and incite boxers, bullfighters, wolfhounds: “Kill him, kill him!” It was they who came up with sophisticated torture, executions, prisons, concentration camps. Many of them can be found in places where the weakened and helpless accumulate: in orphanages, nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons. They instinctively go to places where there is an opportunity to revel in their power. Based on the above, we can now draw the obvious conclusion that the despotic ideal of the world order is completely violent. There is no place for trust, openness, respect, honesty and other aspects of interpersonal relationships,.