Perspectives of Domination.

What is domination? According to Apple Mac’s dictionary, it is “the exercise of control or influence someone or something, or the state of being controlled.”  Seeing the meaning of the word, it appears to be a negative idea to me. It feels like a state, which I would not want to put myself into (being dominated), but the feeling of dominating someone is yet, another thing to talk about.

 I see domination in two perspectives: macro and micro. Thinking of what macro domination means, I thought of America, George W. Bush per se, when was still the president of the United States of America, as a good example.

Under his presidency, US waged war to the Middle East, which for me is only a concealed tactic of controlling the oil reserves. What could happen when America took over the oil industry? The world will beg at her. Why? Who does not need oil? EVERYONE NEEDS IT. Without it, industries will fall. Unfortunately, Bush had not succeeded. Thanks be to Obama.

Moving on, micro domination on the other hand are the petty little things we do everyday that involves a state of being over someone else in varying avenues of daily lives:  boss picking on lower ranking employees, cutting of the line in a taxi lane, teacher sending out late students, mom cutting off your daily allowance, friends joking upon your little mistakes, bullies bully weak people and those sort of other things. 

Now the question that lies, have I dominated someone? Blatantly and boldly speaking, yes. Back when I was in high school, I am a bully myself. There is nothing greater to see a mistake of another man and laugh about it. I do not take it personally though; I only care for having a good laugh about it with my friends. By that, I can say I have dominated them in a way that I pick on what they do, how they look and sometimes how they are just plain stupid.  Laugh at it and it’s done. It is different from having intense bullying wherein the bullied person will suffer so much. But then, I realized that any form of bullying could make a person psychologically affected. Which will then conclude why on the contrary, I would not like myself to be bullied.

The first time I’ve been bullied, slightly, at least, was when I am in first year college. Even when the things my friends have thrown upon me was not that so serious, I hated the fact that they are making fun of me. Being used to being the bully, I don’t take it lightly and confronted them to stop picking on me. Then, I realized how bad I’ve been to the persons I have bullied before. From then on, I have never bullied anyone so badly. But friendly bully among my pals was exceptions, provided I do not make fun of something that could cause so much for them.

In the end, the story of domination clearly depicts the idea of power. The person who has more power, or when he feels like he has the advantage over someone is the dominator. In this world, we cannot defy domination, for we humans are born to face reality and to survive it. From the past, in the present and most likely in the future, people will dominate each other. It is our nature. That, I think, is the saddest part.