Samiul Bashar Samin 

If you thought that power struggles are something that just happen on a global scale, prepare to be proven wrong. Everyone wants power. Our society seems to be trapped inside a bubble with this intangible war going on all around us. We just can’t seem to break free of all the constraints that prevent us from being a progressive and well ordained society.
This cycle seems to have dug its roots deep inside us from an early age. Every now and then, you see some kid trying to get in favor of one “boro bhai” or the other instead of planning to take the world by storm with his creativity and intelligence. In contrast to working for the development for his life, the said teenager would do anything that his “boro bhai” would ask him to do without question.
The biggest question here is why someone would need the favor of his peers. The simple answer is,it gives them the drug that the entire world is addicted to. Power. Once he knows that his peer likes him, he begins to develop this notion that he’ll be protected by this person no matter what crime he commits. This ends up giving him this sense of entitlement.
Is it too far-fetched to connect the dots between this and how the power-hungry mammoths run the world? Every war that this world has ever survived through can be boiled down to one simple cause: The thirst for power.
We call ourselves a civilized society while we seem to turn a blind eye to the aspect of human behavior that corrupts us and urges us to commit gut-wrenching atrocities in the name of war and terrorism. It’s the 21st century and yet we find ourselves succumbing to this bubonic plague of corruption. With every terrorist attack and every war that is provoked, we find ourselves one step closer to losing our humanity.
Is it too late for us? To be honest, it never is. Humans by design are flawed but we do have a quality that is crucial for us to bring peace to this world. Empathy is what makes us the most brilliant creation that this world has seen yet we seem to use it so little, we can seldom be differentiated from animals. We’re so busy building nuclear arsenals and economic walls of insurance that we forget the importance of just agreeing to disagree. Power is a means to an end. The end of humanity. As a new era of humankind is ushered in, it’s high time we attempt to wash off the blood that still stains our hands.