For fifty years I've believed that tales of Mordor, the Orcs of Sauron and Saruman and not to forget, trolls, were massing to destroy Middle Earth, were just fantasy. The product of a turbo - charged imagination.
But these days I wake to discover that these evil forces don't want to destroy just Middle Earth, they want to destroy all of the Earth. If I could only now believe Tolkiens' happy ending.
The difference is that, in Middle Earth, one could get rid of The One Ring.
In The Real World, power attracts the corruptible. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.
At the same time, not only is power What Gets Things Done, it also is unavoidable. If you don't use it, someone else will, and they may not be as principled as you are.
For fifty years I've believed that tales of Mordor, the Orcs of Sauron and Saruman and not to forget, trolls, were massing to destroy Middle Earth, were just fantasy. The product of a turbo - charged imagination.
But these days I wake to discover that these evil forces don't want to destroy just Middle Earth, they want to destroy all of the Earth. If I could only now believe Tolkiens' happy ending.
The difference is that, in Middle Earth, one could get rid of The One Ring.
In The Real World, power attracts the corruptible. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.
At the same time, not only is power What Gets Things Done, it also is unavoidable. If you don't use it, someone else will, and they may not be as principled as you are.