P. Diddy Illustrates a Central Aspect of Human Nature

When people can't afford the things they want, they desire more money. When people acquire limitless money, they desire the things that money can't buy.

If you can acquire things that money can't buy, that gives you enormous power. When people acquire power, they want more of it. And more and more. And more and more and more. And more is never enough. Jefferey Epstein understood human nature. He was in the business of buying and selling things that money can't buy. Until it can. Which creates wealth. Until it can't.

Human nature is not exactly good or bad. Although its insatiable appetites can lead to very bad behavior at times (as it can also sometimes lead to great achievements). The behavior of our elites seems absurd, at times. We all think to ourselves, "I would never do that." And you wouldn't, of course. Unless you acquired limitless money. Which you probably won't.

But if you did, perhaps you'd understand.

But if you're lucky, you'll never understand. Do you really want to understand people the way Mr. Epstein did?

There is a reason that government has so rarely worked. As Mr. Tolkien reminded us, "The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."

Those who have an insatiable appetite for power are poorly suited to leadership positions. And that's nearly all of us.

Our Founding Fathers understood human nature, in much the same was as Mr. Epstein did. There's a reason they designed our Constitution the way they did. They understood that human nature is not exactly good or bad. It's just insatiable.

It's difficult to understand why those with limitless money, like P. Diddy Combs, or Henry VIII, or Jefferey Epstein, or John F. Kennedy, or many others do the things they do, in pursuit of that which their limitless money can't buy. They have everything that money can buy. Why is that not enough? It makes no sense.

But really, it's just human nature. It's insatiable. And that's it.

Lord help all of us.