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"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decay
by hos234 7y ago
"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decaying"
- Moises Naim [The End of Power] The book basically says, it is becoming easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it.
- devoply 7y agoWell when America vacuums up power if you are a European nation without any ammo you better watch out.
- debatem1 7y agoAre you advocating for remilitarizing Germany, an American invasion of Europe, or a second amendment right to Hoovers? In any event, definitely don't vacuum up ammo. It's bad for the vacuum at a minimum.
- iagovar 7y agoHe's saying that we're too use to kill each other in Europe, and we need some external power as middleman to keep heads cool, which is true. Just before the Ukranian war started I thought another war in Europe was nearly impossible. And here we are.
- wolco 7y agoRemilitarizing Germany makes sense. We can't punish this generation for past sins.
- cat199 7y ago> easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it. curious - if it's harder to use/keep, how is it actually 'power'?
- SllX 7y agoYou have power but so do a lot of other people. You use your power to serve your best interests, but people with equal or greater power are also acting in their best interests and sometimes that means your power and their power clashes. When that happens, you don’t always get the result you want, but maybe neither of you gets the results you want. Maybe what ends up happening is some kind of canceling out of your respective powers. If the power dynamics in the market are diverse enough, people with competing interests and ideologies have various forms of power, then this will happen more often than not and you’ll see power canceling out power more often than you see power effecting the influence of the people that wield it.
- hos234 7y agoThats a very good answer. Requires one further piece. Cancellation of competing power occurs as Interconnections Increase. The more connected the world gets the more power bumps into each other. For anyone interested in addition to End of Power, another good book is Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower. It tells the story through different moments in history of what happens to Power(Hierarchies) when they get connected to the Network.