Fight the power, fight or power, fight for power. What kind of power and for what reason. Is power always the best state, or no power - no responsibilities.
We fight for our life, to gain power over it, we fight against life, to gain a better life.
We fight against eachother, to have power over other lives,
we fight against ourselves, to endure our own flawed personalities.
Well, is it or power or for power or against power. One thing is for certain, it has to do with power, all along
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Well, there's much to be said for having a balance between power and powerlessness. The powerless crave power and the powerful crave powerlessness. If we could just find a nice balance between the two, that's where "happiness" would be. Neither extreme is comfortable, and both are difficult to maintain due to external as well as internal pressures.
ReplyDeletePerhaps having a good relationship with power requires thinking less about power. Perhaps the focus on power is part of the problem. Power should ebb and flow naturally. But people are hellbent on either acquiring it or relinquishing it (or, for some of us, doing both).
The best state, in my opinion, would be to have a proper balance of power, whereby one does not have to think about it. If it is in balance, there is no need to focus on acquisition or de-acquisition of power.
Idealistic, wishful thinking?
I think maybe the actual power is when you´re in a state where you feel you don´t need the power at all, as you say. Power is too often considered being very close to having control, which I feel is not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why this short post was written, is that around me, in real life, there are many people at the moment fighting for power, or is it control they want. It seems you´re not a succesful person without it.
In the association where I´m engaged every single issue we bring up causes conflict, it´s so fucking tiring and inflamed, and it makes me pondering about what´s important in life, in the long run.
As my emotions still lives there own life, I believe trying to keep power over your own behavior is the most important thing to do right now, concerning my own effforts in gaining power...
It's interesting how sometimes the most difficult thing to have power (or control, which is actually more accurate) over is ourselves (emotions/behaviors/thoughts).
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how power and control are often used as synonyms, but as you point out, they aren't exactly the same thing. Then, add the complexities of the different kinds of power and control, and you've got a rather complicated topic.
It's frustrating how people's agendas get in the way of group decision-making. People refuse to give up their agenda, and everything gets side-tracked in the weird mire and muck of their respective agendas duking it out.
I wish you well in actually finding a way to resolve those issues. Perhaps you can assist people in realizing and setting aside their personal agendas. Hopefully they are semi-reasonable people. :)