The Sagacity of Unrestrained Power

Yes power corrupts. It negates the caution 

of self-restraint for who is it that achieves the 

station of great power who will not believe

themselves beyond the expectation of justice? 

Absolute power is that place in the firmament 

of humanity's authority over others where the 

holder observes no limits to unrestrained 

achievements of gain be it in treasury, property 

or command and control over human affairs. 

With such absolute power guilt is an emotion 

meant to trouble others and morality is whatever

the dominant one declares it to be. Putin built 

his opulent palace, he entertained the world 

in sports mastery at Sochi; he abandoned a wife 

for youth, strength and beauty; he amassed great 

personal wealth; he altered a state constitution 

to become a 21th Century czar, and he invested

and built a supremely advanced military machine 

with no intention of wasting its unsettling potential. 

Only the powerful are capable of launching wars 

to destroy another country, slaughter its people

scorn its culture and deny it a future. Is someone 

of this supreme stature satisfied with manipulating 

language and reality, the historical legacy resulting 

from the rage of futile efforts at domination?