Leaders are not necessarily authors or originals who have created something of value and thereby earned the allegiance of followers. In most modern systems, leaders are elected, appointed, or seize power through various mechanisms, and once installed, they enjoy authority, privilege, and the instruments of state power. This raises a fundamental question: when those who hold power are simultaneously empowered to make the very policies that govern society, can we expect them to act against their own interests? Would they craft rules that might diminish their authority or challenge their privilege? The evidence from authoritarian governments across the globe—regimes that have extended their terms, eliminated opposition, and reshaped constitutions to perpetuate their rule—suggests a troubling answer: power seeks to preserve and expand itself. There exists a fundamental incompatibility between holding executive power and making policy. Leaders who simultaneously wield authority and wri...
Who can lay claim to be not on the same boat as sinners. This truth is uncomfortable, yet deeply human. Some of us are seen doing wrong; others do the same in secret. What one person does with pride in the light of day, another does with shame in the silence of night. The difference is often not the act itself, but the exposure. We are quick to judge what is visible. We condemn the scandal, the public failure, the open wrongdoing. Yet we rarely examine the hidden movements of our own hearts. We measure morality by appearance. But integrity is not about what is seen. It is about what remains true when no one is watching. There is a tendency within us to divide humanity into two groups: the righteous and the sinful. We imagine ourselves on the better side, simply because our faults are less visible. But this division is fragile. It rests on illusion. If all secrets were made public, if every hidden motive were brought into the light, the lines between “us” and “them” would disapp...