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Is Power Corrupting Your Psychology?
Power corrupts i detail lots of evidence that it changes not just your psychology, but also your brain chemistry. There's a physical change that happens when you're in power. And so power does corrupt. We've basely establish that also. Corruptible people are more likely to seek power,. especially when systems are really rotten and prone to abuse. But we have to figure out which one is actually operating in a given instance. So the problem is, in any individual case, you'll see somebody in power behaving badly. They were always bad, or they became bad. If you misdiagnose it, the solution is completely wrong.