Comment by throw4847285
2 months ago
It's nice to know that despite playing fast and loose with the facts, the film The Social Network does capture something fundamentally true about Zuckerberg's psychology. The pathological need to dominate can be disguised when you're the underdog, but the more power you accrue the more it becomes the sole motivation. To paraphrase Robert Caro, "power does not corrupt, it reveals."
David Brin has it as “absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.”
I think power also can and often does corrupt. Partly due to the corrupting pressure that comes at a person who has power.