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'How the Mighty Fall'
What is power? What exactly does it mean to be powerful? Power, or authority, is generally viewed as endemic to social beings, to humans. The nature of power can exist without coercion, keeping us safe and preventing riots and social instabilities, consequently making it legitimate in the social structures of society. Nevertheless, the nature of power also has the capability of creating evil, of constraining others, of being a force of pure domination. Power cannot be touched, it is not a physical entity and yet we cower from it, we hide from it, we obey it blindly. Power can, and will, corrupt if not exercised wisely. You see power can be created, it does not always have to be earned. For things like money can breed power. Influence can breed power. Looks can breed power and self glorification, illusion, can even breed power, and it is the people whom have acquired these things which we then allow to exercise dominance over us.
When power is striped from a figure of cultural dominance we either see them crumble under the loss, accept their fate as a fallen figure, or continue to stand, unmoving in the false impression of a supremacy to hold on to. It has been said that the most prevailing illusion created is that of power itself. Even in a world of chaos, where there is nothing left but ash, someone undoubtedly will stand up and claim it theirs. When a discussion of power takes place we must ask ourselves the fundamental question; who is it we should trust with such power?
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” - Blaise Pascal
Copyright © 2013 Amy Morris. All Rights Reserved.
'How the Mighty Fall'
What is power? What exactly does it mean to be powerful? Power, or authority, is generally viewed as endemic to social beings, to humans. The nature of power can exist without coercion, keeping us safe and preventing riots and social instabilities, consequently making it legitimate in the social structures of society. Nevertheless, the nature of power also has the capability of creating evil, of constraining others, of being a force of pure domination. Power cannot be touched, it is not a physical entity and yet we cower from it, we hide from it, we obey it blindly. Power can, and will, corrupt if not exercised wisely. You see power can be created, it does not always have to be earned. For things like money can breed power. Influence can breed power. Looks can breed power and self glorification, illusion, can even breed power, and it is the people whom have acquired these things which we then allow to exercise dominance over us.
When power is striped from a figure of cultural dominance we either see them crumble under the loss, accept their fate as a fallen figure, or continue to stand, unmoving in the false impression of a supremacy to hold on to. It has been said that the most prevailing illusion created is that of power itself. Even in a world of chaos, where there is nothing left but ash, someone undoubtedly will stand up and claim it theirs. When a discussion of power takes place we must ask ourselves the fundamental question; who is it we should trust with such power?
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” - Blaise Pascal
Copyright © 2013 Amy Morris. All Rights Reserved.