Power is Illusory. You do not obtain it from an institution, that is a slave mentality.
Being a valuable and influential person gives the first aspect of power. Being a good person ensures you know how to wield it. The truth is, if you are an actual good person, people will hand you power over them because they see the value in you being at the top of the hierarchy.
And that's as if power was the end-all issue here, which it isn't. That's a Leftist meta-narrative. Building a community and a civilization is far more important than mere personal power. Institutions are not power-delivery-vehicles. Institutions are cultural systems that maintain social order, cohesion, and tradition.
Try telling that to every country ever invaded, every rebellion ever crushed, every dissident ever imprisoned.
I'm the guy that invaded them. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Kanye is right: slavery is a choice. I know power is illusory because I've pointed guns at people who don't comply, and also don't give a shit. Protip: you have no power over dead bodies. They're inanimate and can't listen to you. Power is not tangible, can't be given, and can only be perceived by those whom are willing to subject themselves to someone else.
No one is handed power, they take it. Thinking you're just ever handed power is actual slave mentality.
You don't know what slave mentality is. In any case, what I'm saying here is that a person acquiesces to your will under specific circumstances. The best one is one where they willingly acquiesce by deference to your competence. That is what it means to "give power". They are effectively making their agency, yours.
I was never talking about personal power, you illiterate dolt
Then you're not talking about anything at all. Power outside of the bounds of individuals is nothing but a desperate attempt at a statistical abstraction. A "group power" analysis is meaningless.
molding what young people think, turning them into activists, AND getting paid to do it? Now THAT'S power
That's merely soft-power, and again, that's not the same as a power-delivery-vehicles. They don't give power to others, they only use their power on others. That's a whole different concept.
Nonsense, through and through.
Power is Illusory. You do not obtain it from an institution, that is a slave mentality.
Being a valuable and influential person gives the first aspect of power. Being a good person ensures you know how to wield it. The truth is, if you are an actual good person, people will hand you power over them because they see the value in you being at the top of the hierarchy.
And that's as if power was the end-all issue here, which it isn't. That's a Leftist meta-narrative. Building a community and a civilization is far more important than mere personal power. Institutions are not power-delivery-vehicles. Institutions are cultural systems that maintain social order, cohesion, and tradition.
I'm the guy that invaded them. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Kanye is right: slavery is a choice. I know power is illusory because I've pointed guns at people who don't comply, and also don't give a shit. Protip: you have no power over dead bodies. They're inanimate and can't listen to you. Power is not tangible, can't be given, and can only be perceived by those whom are willing to subject themselves to someone else.
You don't know what slave mentality is. In any case, what I'm saying here is that a person acquiesces to your will under specific circumstances. The best one is one where they willingly acquiesce by deference to your competence. That is what it means to "give power". They are effectively making their agency, yours.
Then you're not talking about anything at all. Power outside of the bounds of individuals is nothing but a desperate attempt at a statistical abstraction. A "group power" analysis is meaningless.
That's merely soft-power, and again, that's not the same as a power-delivery-vehicles. They don't give power to others, they only use their power on others. That's a whole different concept.
No one asked you to, but willful ignorance probably won't help.