Mankind’s Dilemma: Power is a corrupting force intrinsically associated with greed
By Tom E. O’Neil
April 22, 2019


Preface
If a caveman hit the side walk today, he would run wild until he reached a cliff, only to throw himself upon the rocks from his own power.  Reverse this, if a modern warfare soldier with all his weapons teleported back to the past, thus finding himself in the midst of Cro-Magnons; he would become God to them and that power would rush to his head.  Society and culture including any race has problems with the power paradigm.  Somehow we are ill equipped, untrained, unrefined maybe not brought up right to deal with our relationship to this intangible word called, “Power”!  Power is behind all our social evils or would you say that humans just cannot live without that aspect in their character.  My question is will mankind decline and fall from great heights by hanging on to his ever increasing need for power?  Or will we win the day by coming to terms with our relationships involved with our everyday power moves?