The Most Addictive Substance Known to Humans

Legal issues aside, when asked at random what the most addictive force available to humans is, most people will rattle off the usual suspects - alcohol, drugs, or perhaps even sex.

I beg to differ and have a contrarian view.

In my books, the most potent, addictive, and ultimately destructive mantle humans can don - whether seized by sheer coercion or bestowed through the veneer of an alleged democratic equitable representation model process which is nothing more than an illusion of democracy - is power, all under the dubious mirage of fair elections but the outcome remains hauntingly similar no matter which playbook is put in motion.

History has shown time and again what addiction to power does to human beings. It plays out in every sphere of life in familiar theaters - from domestic bedrooms to corporate boardrooms, from small states to the grand stage of nations and global empires. History bears silent testimony and is a damning witness to what intoxication and inebriation of unbridled power sans checks and balances does to the human spirit. 

Power seduces before it destroys. It begins by granting the illusion of control, only to end by enslaving those who wield it with a high unparalleled, a cancer of the mind unhinged and metastasized. The higher one rises, the deeper the addiction takes root. Absolute power, as we have seen through the ages, mutates even the noblest of minds into raving, delusional shadows of their former selves. Absolute power changes those who wield it, turning them into psychopathic, raving sub-human lunatics. Exceptions exist, yes - rare souls who wear power lightly and remain on a high moral compass but they are painfully few and far between. And by way of an appendage they are the exception, not the rule.

Habitual cynics will scoff at what has been penned above and condescendingly seek a remedy from me to deep clean the toxic ruling by mandate ecosystem. To them and those who enjoy the pangs of power I beseech them to soak in what Socrates viewed true power. He opined true power as coming from the internal control of one's own soul and the pursuit of a virtuous and just life, rather than from external factors like political might or wealth which by default is temporary intrinsically because of the mortal DNA of human beings.✍?