Corridors of Power

The shadowy blurred figure and setting in this photograph made me think about corridors of power.

Dark secret places. Tunnels where only the privileged go, whether through earned right or by birthright. Jealously guarded places where those who are not privileged to enter are kept well away and permitted no glimpse of the goings on. Places were dark plots are hatched, where schemes to oust and install are born, where truth is spun to be lie and lie is spun to be truth. Places where the grey world of dark devious possibilities are transformed into firm strategies to 'make it happen'.

Places where those who would seek power and dominion over others must learn to tread in order to achieve their fame and fortune and place in history. Places where treachery is common, and loyalty always has a price. Where 'self' and self-preservation are king and the only matter of importance. Places where the fight to be top takes place, in whatever form that fight takes, and where the victor emerges into the light and glory and adulation of his or her allies......and the defeated and wounded depart outside the walls to lick their wounds and to think again.

Darkly lit places where shadowy figures do their plotting in secret and always with a well rehearsed plausible deniability strategy in case something leaks or is exposed to the hard light of day. Places where the outcomes and decisions are reported to the masses - if at all - in economy of truth.

Nothing in human nature changes. Its been that way ever since human-kind figured out that they could take power to do whatever they wanted to do at the expense if necessary of other fellow humans and of the resources we've been given in this world.

I could be talking about any government or big company but this particular corridor of Scottish power in Stirling Castle is hunderds of years old. It will have seen many a plot hatched and executed. Its not a corridor of power nowadays unless you count children coercing parents into buying an ice-cream when they get outside.

Enjoy the weekend blippers.