About "Kings"

That person that controlls his group of friend, a person that if goes to X, his friends will go to X. That "omnipotent" person that can control mind and actions of his plebeians... They exist, and I'm sure that we all know one of them and, in some moment, wanted to be like one of them. People likes to be powerful, to be able to control other people and to be accepted. I think that those "kings" just exist when we are young, when we are more easily influenced and just another child that we know, someone that are better in X that the rest of children, someone that just have more friends or is more "guay" can get a "higher" social status.

Maybe we can hate that person, but if our friends go with him, I'm sure that we'll go with them (with our friends, not with the "king"). And it's the beginning. In this moment we have three different ways: to become a new and more charismatic "king" and to "recruit" our friends, to continue with the new "king" and, slowly, to incorporate his philosophy or maybe to look for new friends. We often change our influences, and we won't go with "rotten apples", I think that everyone'll go with the people he wants being agree with his ethics. We need a 3rd person to critizice our friendships to have an idea about them, but it's difficult to reduce (mentally) the social status that the "King" have.
In sometimes I experimented some of these situations (to choose between my friends and to follow a "King", or to be independent) and I have to admit that in some times I choosed the "wrong" way... But now, I think that if someone wants to be a free-thinker he'll lose friends and opportunities. We can't be absolutely independent, we'll be influenced now and later.