That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you are corruptible and your imagination is confined to worries about loss of power, you exist in a self-destructive system. Eventually, as all life does, you must encounter some thing you did not anticipate, and if you have not strengthened your creative resources, you will have no new ways for adapting to change. Adapt or die, that's the first rule of survival. The limited vision of noncreative people is not difficult to understand.
Creativity frightens the unimaginative.
They don't know what's happening. Things new and unexpected arise from creativity. You buy an audience. The next time you watch a political campaign, ask yourself if that sounds familiar. There is more.