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.
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 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.