Yesterday I went home like a car to a gas station, quite literally getting a fill up an a little plastic plate on the side. Not bad, although Mr Pig and Mr Turkey are probably missing their days of poking around their stainless steel cages, waiting for their next growth hormone injection. This, my friends, is why I don’t often eat much meat. If it was possible to feed animals their own brains, some crooked farmer would be laughing all the way to the bank.

Speaking of laughing all the way to the bank, I was reading a book that was describing why people don’t trust CEOs of large companies anymore. Mostly, of course, because they’ve stopped caring about the direction of the companies they’re leading and have sacrificed good morals in order to cash in their stock options. That’s a little bit broad; there certainly are those men and women who still lead their companies as a leader should.

But it got me wondering. There’s certainly nothing wrong with power. Power itself doesn’t corrupt anyone, because it’s a neutral thing. Any moral force exerted against it is exerted by the one wielding the power, which explains why God can have perfect power and be perfect, and how corrupt humans can have even the smallest trace and manage to screw it over nice and well.

Maybe the problem isn’t that power is so bad for people, but that the people who are naturally drawn to power are more easily seduced by it than others. I dunno, maybe.

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