The A**hat Rule

“Once you wanted revolution. Now YOU’RE the institution. How’s it feel to be ‘The Man’”? —Ben Folds

Ben Folds summarized a terribly uncomfortable truth in his 2001 hit single “The Ascent of Stan.” He described how a young man, full of '“hippie ideals”, grows up and gets a job and becomes successful…only to realize that he’s now become a soulless corporate schill — “The Man” that he was so vehemently against in his youth. “It’s no fun to be The Man,” F…