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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2385340" data-attributes="member: 63">Very good points, Celebrim. But what is 'Taking Over the World'?You only want to rule things for one of two reasons:1. You're power-hungry, and rather insane, and so you set your sights as high as possible. You are probably doomed to fail.2. You have an agenda, and you want to influence everyone to fulfill that agenda.Now, that agenda could be generous and benevolent (I'm going to eliminate hunger!), or it could be selfish (I'm going to kill all other men so I'll have all the women for myself!), or it could be any number of middle-ground things (Look! I'm Ra's Al Ghul!).So what if you just want to fulfill an agenda?Has anyone hear read I, Robot? At the end of the book, the world is ruled by 6 entities, all working in concert. They even explain how it happened. Basically, if you control infrastructure, you can influence things much more easily and discreetly than if you try to tell people to do things.I mean, what's easier: convincing a person to eat a healthy dinner, or making sure that the restaurant's freezer's broken, so they don't have any ice cream?</blockquote>