Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.
“Consumer capitalism has a voracious appetite — it needs to keep us buying… Now, how you keep the whole system energized? …There’s one big resource they can tap… the latent psychopathy of the human mind.”