A reply to those essential questions

When the questions cease, so does the mind.

You threw me for a loop by editing your response after I just figured out how to respond. Anyhow, in my experience and observation (rightly or wrongly), I see many actions are senseless as they lack the appropriate fibers and fundamentals of decison making and problem solving. They would be: Break down the "pain" or "pleasure" to the simplest unit of identification and generate INNOVATIVE ways to correct or influence the desired state with minimal cost and Evaluate whether the action had the desired effect.

History tells us time again these acts are repetitive and responsive with failure to correctly identify whether the action performed was designed to solve the original pain or pleasure, it becomes automatic without evaluation. However, these acts can be purposeful and goal-orientated like a cat chasing its tail, but with sound thought and sense; I think not.

In reality, the impluse for authority is the goal, it's strong. And with that, allows us to have the good fight, which is needed for absolute moral development. Those in power are pawns really, they have yet reached a position of moral development, especially by Kohlberg's standards. They are rocks and mountains in the way, always will they be there, sometimes eroded there and there, but formed elsewhere.

When you desire to control others, you fail to know yourself.

Another thing, sometimes it's encouraged to bite the hands that feeds, when that hand prevents you from feeding yourself.

Ojo del Fantasma (Thanks for the correction)