Power Corrupts

And never has it been so evident as it is today

Lord Acton’s admonition, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” has never been proven so truthful as it is in today’s world. Not only is the corruption, in terms of the accumulation and misuse of power so evident in the world, but the variety of ways it is being accumulated and displayed are more visible than they have ever been.

Power, in the sense of the admonition, is the accumulation of power that is used to control, kill, or manipulate others. This power is accumulated and manifested in a variety of forms, ranging from social movements like Antifa and BLM, to governments and their various institutions, to religions such as the Iranian theocracy, to the actions of billionaires ranging from MacKenzie Scott to George Soros to Neville Roy Singham. All of these forms, which are ultimately led by individuals who are the heads of the forms of power, are attempting to use their power to both accumulate more by both leveraging the support of the populace, and by controlling that populace to achieve their personal objectives (and/or enhance their wealth).

Often these systems of power use the other systems for their benefit. Such as when the economic power leaders use their power to corrupt or influence political leaders to write laws that benefit their institutions. Both to protect them from competition and to increase the power they hold over the populace.

Or, it can be when political leaders, such as in Spain, subvert the laws and institutions of their government in order to undermine the foundations of their country by enabling a mass influx of migrants whose religion will overthrow the history and native population of the country and convert it back into the Islamic state it once was. As is also happening across the EU.

Or, it can be when religious leaders, such as the ayatollah, seek by direct means to impose Islam on the world by violence, including both the elimination of Israel and the killing of Christians by the tens of thousands annually in Africa. Or by indirect means, as when the Sunni leaders of Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia use their wealth to spread fundamentalist Islamic teachings through Western countries while at the same time promoting the false message of peaceful coexistence.

Finally, it can be when political leaders such as Xi in China violently suppress all religions, both Islamic and Christian, as potential sources of opposition to Communist rule and control of the population, while at the same time subverting Western institutions and businesses by gaining a stranglehold on their economies through control of critical supplies and production.

Evil, in the end, is expressed in the control of others to benefit the person(s) or institution imposing the control. It can be to increase their wealth, their power, or their pleasure and can range from individual acts of sadism and murder through to mass killings, pogroms, and the enslavement of the populace, as exists in North Korea. In all instances, there is a person or group at the top to which the power that their evil enables flows and benefits. Their positions are maintained by those lackeys underneath them, who also benefit to a lesser degree but also seek to grow and maintain their own power by imposing their will on those beneath them, as do those underneath them, etc.

Power, in this regard, is a cancer that grows and corrupts people and institutions. To remove the visible head of the form of power is likely to do nothing to remove the evil that the institution that they lead performs. When one ayatollah is removed, another is appointed to take his place by the institution itself and their aims continue unabated, as is now so obvious in Iran. Same as when a corrupt political or business leader is removed. The functions of the institution remain, as it still carries all the parasitical ticks who feed on the power that the institution represents. Until the whole body of the institution is destroyed and all of these ticks are killed, the corruption will remain and continue to grow and infect others.

As these cancers have grown and spread around the world, the ability to resist and destroy them grows weaker. Not only are they all attempting to destroy or subvert all remaining bastions of decency, they are also attempting to do the same to the competing systems of power. In effect, it is a free-for-all battle for power that is being fought on all fronts, at all levels, all the time. Welcome to the 21st century.