Yes, it is true power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. This saying indeed should be the central values of
society.
Power like monies are just the means and not the end. It is not
evil. However covetousness or worshiping of monies as our ex-chief
minister David Marshal called it worship of the golden calf is the
root of all evil.
Monies collected from the citizens should be put to create values
for our lives and to sustain our social and economic wellbeing and
to maximize the use of all monies as well as our total available
resources for nation building.
However we have a government which uses many excuses to get more
and more monies for itself so that it can claim success and use
such monies for their own purposes. So to the government monies
have become the be all and end all of its whole being and its
governing philosophy.
Monies have become an opium to all government leaders and their
elites. For monies they seem to be prepared to do anything. That is
why it is taking away endlessly citizens' monies through all kinds
of schemes and has forgotten the original purpose of taxes which
should be put to good use to provide basic services like medical
care or hedge against unemployment or poverty traps etc.
Such taxes should be put to good use to enable people to lead a
better and more fulfilling life. It should have been used to
inculcate values and morality to build an inspiring nation for the
good of all. It is their worshiping of the monies which has become
the evil.
Such worship and intoxication with monies has created a selfish
society where people try to steal, to conspire, to do wrong.
Now similarly power is not a bad thing. Like you said you may be
even good. Military power can be used as deterrent as China
presently believes. China leaders have said many times it will not
be the first to use its nuclear weapons.
A true Shaolin Master who has acquired real marshal art power will
not use it. He will possess and practise it for deterrent purpose
or defend himself for its most effective use. The moment he tested
it he will lose that power.
The former Soviet Union was powerful in term of its nucruel
capability and prowess. However the moment it flaunted its power in
actual conflicts in Afghanistan it began to erode and finally lost
its power.
Americans seemed to have exploited Soviet Union later flaunting of
its military power in Afghanistan to its advantage and brought
about the final collapse. Had Soviet Union followed the Shaolin
Master strategy to conserve its power for deterrent purpose with
practices of morality and humility today Soviet Union might well be
still around.
It is the ambition to control the world that makes the powerful
power-crazy to murder to wage war and commit genocides etc.
Because of its self-arrogance and its open and unashamed and
excessive show and use of its power to get its way, government is
slowly and surely losing the real power.
