Sneaking Suspicion...

You don't want to believe that life is all just an elaborate game of brute power. You don't want to believe that this brute power game is sort of sublimated into a million different varieties. You think of other values, values like love, creativity, play, and you want to believe that you can fill your life with those things, and ignore the underlying brute power game.  But you have a sneaking suspicion...