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Power attracts those who pursue power, and those most willing to go to any ends to obtain that power are those mostly likely to wind up with it. I don't think

• mc32 5y ago
  Maybe that’s part of it, but a lot of it is also how organizations of people work. When one person agrees and the other disagrees it comes down to interpretation of the rules and then imposing those rules. It can become very despotic quite fast. And it’s not because the people are like that. The “system” makes them into that. In the case above, if the agreer sees the disagreers side this encourages other disagreers to flout whatever it was and things can devolve into anarchy. So you necessarily have to enforce some rules.
• luma 5y ago
  Too late to edit my post but this quote from Frank Herbert's "Chapterhouse: Dune" says it well: > All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
• alexashka 5y ago
  > those most willing to go to any ends to obtain that power are those mostly likely to wind up with it That's not how the real world works. We're not in a comic book or self help course where if you want something badly enough, you'll get it. Plenty of people want to be successful rappers (insert any other competitive profession). Most of them don't make it. Now if you genuinely believe the deciding factor is 'willingness to go to any ends', you're simply empirically wrong. That's not how the real world functions and if it did, complex modern society would not be possible.