When Fear Consumes the Mighty

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-- It's a grave situation when a powerful individual suffers a sense of insecurity, sees his strength withering away, feels incapable of self-defense and reacts by blindly striking out at anything and anyone. This only serves to increase the hostility felt by others against him. And such an individual often uses the power of the implied threats against him to strengthen his grip over others, in order to change the dynamics of relations so as to control them. --