Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Power

The Oxford dictionary of the English language reveals that the essential definition of power as “to cause to act” was first utilized about 1305.

The essential definition as “a particularly strong faculty of body or mind, of vigor, vitality, and energy” appeared about 1440.

The two somewhat authoritarian concepts of power as “personal or social ascendancy,” and “controlling political or economic ascendancy or influence” did not emerge until about 1535.

Thus far, then, the complex topic of power breaks neatly into two parts — the power of societal artifices, and the powers of the individual.

Our species existed here long before the societal power artifices that are controlled by the relatively few.

TRY TO OBSERVE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL POWERS
A societal authoritarian power. As already established these are usually given as “control, authority, and influence over others,” but the nature of the “others” is never identified.

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