This paper makes an unorthodox examination of the theories of elitism, group, and power to understand their incapacity to explain why (absolute) power may never corrupt absolutely in the absoluteness of time and space in a society. The answer is in the phenomenon of envy, which the three frameworks, along with the rest of the social sciences, have ignored; and, the ingredients of which phenomenon are strongly implicated in the logic and operation of those theories as envy is the common link among them.

This paper makes an unorthodox examination of the theories of elitism, group, and power to understand their incapacity to explain why (absolute) power may never corrupt absolutely in the absoluteness of time and space in a society. The answer is in the phenomenon of envy, which the three framewor...