Earlier today I was sitting idly by, watching TV, trying to passively absorb some nuggets of human history, when a commercial urged me to use my web browser - a commercial!  As it turns out, my karma ranks as 135 or so, on a scale of who knows what, and that means I'm a good person.  Yay!  After the quiz, I found myself in the "What is karma" section, as I'm always interested to see if new ways of explaining this or other simple concepts are up to my standards, and I found a staggering revelation - something I always knew, but which never sunk in until expressed as a bar graph:

All this time, I thought civic action was just a fun and exciting way of watching out for number one, but it turns out watching out for number one can translate into watching out for the whole universe without much extra effort.  If this transitive property of watching-out-for-ness can be described as potency, I'm doubly in favor.