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Nietzsche
For Nietzsche there is the will to power, working at varying degrees of strength to subdue and unify a crowd of competing forces and previously imposed structures and habits. What new forms and structures emerge are arbitrary, in the sense that there is no convincing justification for them other than their aesthetic or pragmatic qualities and the strength of will behind them. Yet they are necessary, in the sense that they result from a clash decided by the relative strengths and qualities of the force vectors involved. Modern self-legislation then becomes the act of the few who are strong enough to face this conflict directly and impose their will.
This is not adequate.