Human Nature

It so happens that many of us tend to start something with good intentions, start it, do it but power corrupts. From Isildur in LOTR to Robert Mugabe, from Napoleon in Animal Farm to Stalin. Why are we so susceptible to power?

Is there some insuppressible tendency for us as Humans to covet more and more of it?
Communism is a feeling that I personally admire. Not the communism of the USSR which had Brezhnev or Andropov but the communism which makes sure victims of unwanted exploitation get their due. All this reminds me of a single movie - 'Anbe Sivam' by Kamal Hassan. I think it has one of the best story lines in which he perpetrates the vision that love is God! He is a staunch communist but feels that men who do good are equal to God. I completely agree with him on this. God put us here on Earth to live and not hate. We do not need to visit temples or mosques to prove that we are religious. A line of sacred ash on one's forehead or a cross hanging on one's neck is not a passport to heaven! Helping the needy around you, be it a hungry dog or a person short of ten rupees for a train ticket is what life is all about.

I just read the 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell and I think it is one of the best books ever written. It shows how a good intention is corrupted by power and how in the end, you and your next door neighbour suffer! The sad thing about us is the fact that many of us have recognized and realized how wrongly we lead our lives and yet continue to do so. It is high time to change is what I feel and change always begins within a single person.