• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      13·
      6 days ago

      No, they aren’t metaphysical eldtritch gods infecting humans. Corruption existed prior, yes, in systems also designed to protect rule by a small class of people, like feudalism.

          • elfpie@lemmy.eco.br
            22·
            5 days ago

            Try thinking like this: Having more power means that your decisions, preferences, biases and limitations have more weight. With more weight, you will bulldoze whatever other people want. With all the weight, whatever you say goes. The corruption is a part of the system overruling the rest through no malicious intent.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              41·
              5 days ago

              That’s not corruption, though, that’s just how administration works. There can absolutely be good reasons for people to have more of a say when it comes to decision making, and these people can be selected democratically or meritocratically.

      • greenskye@lemmy.zip
        5·
        6 days ago

        Good luck convincing others of this take. People really truly believe in some sort of supernatural ‘can never possibly resist’ corruptive force when it comes to power. As if the idea of a human that has power and isn’t corrupted is so much more impossible than all the other fantasy bullshit we’ve dreamed up. Hell they even had to make Superman an alien just to get people to accept the idea of a good powerful person.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          8·
          6 days ago

          Ultimately, the answer lies in taking a materialist approach to analysis, rather than an idealist stance. Cutting through the supernatural and relying on the material as our frame of reference helps us demystify subjects like “power corrupting.”