Reading Response to Thinking of Empire - Essay Example

Teacher: Response to ‘Thinking about Empires’ The article is an enlightening document, which provides an outlook of how Empires are created and how power consumes individuals. It is an eye opener on the nature of power, and how people are blinded by the hunger for power. This is something that is evident in modern society today. The manner in which people seek to establish empires is self-centered and results in wars between nations and even regions.“Thinking about Empires’ highlights a major factor, greed.

Power is considered as the ultimate jewel of society, as it provides control of several factors, other than human kind. The nature of power creates an addiction to rule, resulting in several people seeking to have power. Through this, people become greedy, once they obtain power, they seek to hold onto it till they die; this is how people establish dynasties in the political field.Power can destroy a society, several people will always struggle to obtain and when they do, it consumes them and they are never the same.

The privileges of power create greed, which also consumes the individuals who crave for power but do not have it. It results in people scheming and hoping to gain power. People will do whatever it takes to be in power. The bottom line is that in the end power makes people corrupt.The manner, in which the Romans and the English sought to establish empires, was a demonstration of how power was a negative factor in society. It resulted in several societies losing their homes and being consumed by the very empires that oppressed them.

However, power is important to direct countries and individuals into some direction, be it good or bad. In the end, I find that without the hunger for power, the world would be a peaceful place to live. I can only wonder if a non-power hungry world will ever take center stage.