Does the fact of having power, reduce the will to power? since you already have the power?
Is the fact that philosophers are so damn good at philosophy, because, they are powerless?
You might switch gears and strive towards maintaining power.
Point being, politicians suck because they lose the will to power once they have the power.
Backseat driving is underrated.
But they still strive to maintain their power, don’t they? Which is a form of will to power.
Once someone has become obsessed with power there is never enough of it that can satiate them. One could say that tyrants lack a certain sort of power while they are loaded to the brim with a different sort. Namely, they lack the power of empathy, compassion, wisdom, and overall self discipline. By repressing those powers severely they create a grand space for the powers of resentment, pity, and coercion.
Yes but it is weaker, diminished, thus their plans are lame and stupid
There is always more power to be had, more land to be conquered.
People who already have a substantial amount of power never seem to be satisfied with it; they always want more.
Substantial comes with greater responsibility which threatens the currently held power even more so in a competitive world, fear arises out of this thus motivates further accumulation, which extends stability for a time being, this repeats because nothing is static absolute…there are also other driving forces such as passion.If the objective is prestige relating to an authority position then the will defaults to maintenance. Somebody like Hitler had passion resulting in a plan resulting in excessive power growth which ultimately backfired because “Substantial comes with greater responsibility which threatens the currently held power even more so in a competitive world”
Power corrupts / absolute power corrupts absolutely
Power and will are inversely proportional at the center. Will to power diminishes the power to will at the very center, the left wills pure power without an object, the right powers the will with absolute intent, and the center recede in the totality of their blindness from both.
Therefore most totalitarianisms have to take a defensive position.