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I would add that elusiveness is a form of power that doesn’t get enough attention. It is a form of defense that undermines someone else’s power. Think of encryption blocking feds from reading your private conversations. Technologies like that give plebs power.

mister_monster 1y ago

Anything that enables you to make your imagination a reality is power. Usually it's framed as power to get others to do what you want, but it doesn't only mean that.

That's why I continue to espouse natural rights. I seek power only over myself, not others, at least not coercively. Maintaining that narrative ensures that all men can live in such a world, protected from predators. There's a reason it's the most successful cultural idea every created, and that is that it is a protocol that, for those who follow it, enable them to go their own way when they need to and ban together when they must. One value: leave us alone. Very powerful on it's own.

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MAHDOOD 1y ago

We are always using power. You’re exercising a form of power by sharing your views and trying to influence or convince me to accept yours. We use power to manipulate other people. Women have power because they use makeup to enhance their beauty and get the things they want. Men accumulate wealth and status to secure relationships with those beautiful women. We don’t really talk about how these are all just various ways to exert power on each other but it is. It’s our power that allows us to farm animals for food and harvest the earth’s resources for sustenance. Power is everything.

mister_monster 1y ago

Yep, hence my qualifier "coercively". Every time I open myouth my goal is to influence someone's behavior. That's soft power. But soft power can be deceptive or not, it's deceptive when the behavior you wish to induce is against the interest of the target. I don't like to do this either.