Powers and Principalities are personified in some literature, My professor said that by personifying it, we make it distant. In some ways it divorces us from the responsibility for the evil that exists. For example when we say "the economy" is the problem we divorce responsibility from ourselves and our actions. When we say "Satan made me do it" we're shifting responsibility off of ourselves. It can become an excuse that separates us from the need to change our actions.
I'm not sure that this is always the case, sometimes it empowers us to act when we can stop feeling guilty for our actions and instead consider ourselves fighting a battle with sin. On the other hand I don't tend to personify sin so who knows. It was an interesting idea though.
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