Wouldn't it bother you that it's such a waste? The inability to grasp everything directly.
Why would I have to wait for world dominion to have that bother me? The fact that I'm not able to live my life to the fullest, as a World Leader or as a regular, old me, would be a universal concern regardless of what sort of hat I'm wearing. Does it bother you that you're sitting in front of the computer screen and not climbing Mount Everest? That's a waste isn't it? Especially when it is within your power to go on such an expedition if that were really your goal, after all. But you realize that you would have to sacrifice the other things you find equally important or enjoy doing before you could throw yourself headlong into preparing for such a trip, and so you stick to what coincides with your immediate goals and present resources. And such is life for everyone.
There's no real way to reconcile this dissonance other than to realize that we're human and that all we can do is all we can do.
I know some people go insane when they come into a position of power, but I should hope that my mental state and expectations from myself would remain healthy.
Imagine someone comes now and gives me a document that I'm the boss of the entire Milky Way. Oh, yeah? So? At most, I could get myself launched to the Moon, with nasty probability of getting killed by some tech accident. What a joke. I can't even comprehend the full richness of one entire mountain here, let alone a country, or the whole surface of the planet; the Solar system, or the galaxy. No matter how much I control them, even if I get to travel across time and space, they would forever remain physically impossible for me to grasp (with my mind and senses). I will only get extremely limited projections, like Google Earth on a screen, or some great cosmic landscapes through a thick glass. And that's all. It will get boring in less than a month. I would prefer to return and explore one mountain in detail, instead.
It seems the only motivation of someone to want so much, is to feel as if they are worth more than other people. But measuring the self by all people is not such a privilege. I feel sometimes as if we're all still in the kindergarten, with some being a little more capricious than reasonable.
It depends on the individual's perspective and their goals; not everyone values the same things you do, you know. There are those who do not simply want World Dominion for the sake of being worth more or feel like they'll get a free ride, but because they feel can also do a lot of good from the position of supreme authority.
From this angle, it does seem like you're adamant about painting everyone with the same, corrupted brush. This being an imagination exercise, I'm surprised that we're presently discussing world dominion by pigeon-holing it into a terrible, nasty, and immature goal... and pinning our psychoanalysis on a hypothetical subject. Just because you wouldn't find such and such things worthy of your time, or despicable or heartless or even entertaining to your own aesthetics, it doesn't necessarily have to be the way you describe it.
Because really, we can look at it from a selfless position as well. Running the whole world would be a full-time job, and likely to exhaust a lot of the person's resources. But if what they were doing was to be for the greater good.. for the love of maintaining peace among all men. Is that so ignoble a goal?
Now that I think about it, I think the
real appeal behind World Dominion is that all the resources are at your finger tips and you get to do whatever you want in the time that you're alloted on this great, green earth. When you want it, however you want it. The whole idea behind such ultimate, earthly power is that it will be put to some sort of use... and it boils down to good or evil, the definitions thereof being perfectly up to perspective.
