I often wonder if this kind of thing is like a rite of passage or something. Like mutually assured destruction for everyone, ensuring that all who make it to the ruling class truly are ride or die. One massive gang.
Gaining power often means loosening of morals and ethics, removing the constraints on behaviors in order to be capable of doing what is effective. All these people are in a club where they’re all criminals because that’s how power works.
Yes there are. They just don’t make it through the gauntlet to reach power since they don’t desire it to begin with.
“Its one big club and you ain’t in it”
I often wonder if this kind of thing is like a rite of passage or something. Like mutually assured destruction for everyone, ensuring that all who make it to the ruling class truly are ride or die. One massive gang.
Gaining power often means loosening of morals and ethics, removing the constraints on behaviors in order to be capable of doing what is effective. All these people are in a club where they’re all criminals because that’s how power works.