Thanks for your comment, Brian. There are some people that have influence over others or assigned power for the reasons you mention. Ambition like you describe is a real desire for transcendence gone wild, when it is not tempered by aspirations to wisdom and happiness. It is self-defeating, of course, in the end, but does a lot of damage while it is going on. And it is not really leadership, but mostly shows as abuse of power or senseless exercise of it. And I loved the way you described that conviction. It is a thing of beauty to witness it.