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You’re confusing power over other people and power over your own circumstances.
by esoterica 7y ago
You’re confusing power over other people and power over your own circumstances.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe very beginning of the article asserts that they're essentially the same. In a world with more than one person alive and interacting, it's true.
- protonfish 7y agoI disagree. There are many forms of power (including F*v) but what we commonly confuse is power that is the means available to accomplish a task, and political power that represents ones altitude in a social hierarchy. And though I agree with you that where two or more people gather together there will be competition over who is dominant (AKA politics) I disagree that those of higher social status can have %100 control over anyone. After we make our requisite displays of subservience to the overlords, we can still carve out a lot of freedom needed to accomplish our own goals, if we are smart and discrete about it.
- esoterica 7y agoThe beginning of the article says the exact opposite.
- newfangle 7y agoYes and its wrong
- im3w1l 7y agoIn a sparsely populated world everyone can have their own place and do what they want. In a highly populated world that's not possible. People will share space and have differing views on how things are to be arranged there.
- dondawest 7y agoEven (and especially) in sparsely populated worlds, people have to share space. Look at Antarctica, the desert, etc.
- taneq 7y agoThe two are one and the same. If you have no power over other people you can't stop them from impinging on your own circumstances.