POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power
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How Everybody Is Powerless

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Limits of self-awareness
A person can theoretically agree with a principle (it's important to act a certain way) but not notice when they themselves do not follow it
emotions prevent from noticing? 
we are all emotional rather than rational beings (elephant and rider)
cultural narratives are filled with examples of these principles, and ideas are becomming more sophisticated (now more narratives about empathy) 

Terrible twos - reaction to the first realization of powerlessness

nobody has absolute power [add link]

so when people do get to have some power, they try to keep it for as much as they can
this takes many forms and can happen to any individual or group of people

although we can see some groups of people historically trying to keep their power, it can happen to any group of people, so it’s important not to essentialism (e.g. « only this group of people can have people and try to maintain their power)

when people get to use more power, they can get clingy. They are clinging to this power exactly because they feel (often subconsciously) that having more power is temporary.

Is there absolute power? I don’t think so.
​how about unchecked power? This is different. Unchecked power is means actions that are not controlled or restrained. It is not the same as absolute. Unchecked power is not absolute.

if you want to know how powerless you are, try to make a real big change
abother option: experience bureaucracy
psge about bureaucracy: Brazil by terry guillism, my experience with British visa

cupture requires constant maintenance (at least the most technologiezed cuoture) Dr binocs - what if all humans disappeared


  • About
  • Introduction
  • Browse the book
    • Completed pages
    • All the pages alphabetically >
      • B >
        • Benefits of understanding power
        • Binary thinking
        • Buddhism
      • C >
        • Choice
      • D >
        • Discovering your power
      • E >
        • Empowerment
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
      • M >
        • Macropower: discourse
        • Main theories of power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Micropower: ability and influence
        • Mindfulness
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Powerful and powerless
        • "Power" in language
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power of mind
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • W >
        • What is power?
  • Author
    • My process