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cooper
Written Jan. 11, 2008 / Report /
I'm sorry, I'm relatively bright, and though it's possible my brain has recently turned to mush, and if that is the case you will have to excuse me, but I have no idea exactly what this says.
The only think I know is I run from passive aggressive people, and I prefer the ego of my friends or lovers to be fed by other than myself.
Kamigoroshi
Written Jan. 11, 2008 / Report /
I was raised in an environment where you either control or be controlled. Because of that, I've always did whatever I could to be in power to prevent things that shouldn't be happening from happening.
Of course, I learnt that power isn't always about having great showmanship. More so since I'm not the type of person to carry such obvious display of charisma and control.
In a dominant submissive relationship for instance, it's the submissive that are in control of the relationship. I can work with that.
Andrew
Written Jan. 11, 2008 / Report /
Power can sometimes be reduced to the simple binary of 'empowered' and 'disempowered', but we shouldn't stop there. We can also look at the context of 'empowerment' for clues as to the components of a power base. What is it that enables one person to be more powerful than another? How did those circumstances come into being?
Understanding a wider array of contextual parameters can offer a greater chance of eluding or even dismantling situations of power abuse.
Think of a city's power grid for example. Contrary to the popular media image, it cannot be shut down by the flick of a single switch. There are a whole number of procedures at different locations, each requiring multiple steps and agents in order to shut down a city's power supply.
In an analogous sense, if one were to lead a bottom-up movement against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, it would have to be executed through a myriad of channels that one by one dismantle the base of power. You could of course engage in an immediately destructive top-down approach, but you do so at the risk of strengthening elements of power and forming new factions and ramifications. This is the case of Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Iraq and countless other conflicts.