[p2p-research] Helping the Helpless

[Nathan Cravens]

>
> *Power may be defined as the capacity to achieve one’s will against the
> will of another. *


This is a definition based, within the context Michel presented in one
message, on observing representations of the 'struggle' for "power" among
others that are assumed to share the same rigidly defined cognitive
approach, one that is mostly reductive and reactionary and can only approach
the world within its 'articulated gridlock' or trappings. Everything else
outside that described world-view is flawed and objected to destruction,
even if that novel view is a more preferable one, to preserve the past
'struggle holder's' own toxicity, thus so by stagnation in using a static
'logic model' in the attempt at preserving an ideology believed so
rigorously to work best and always.

That author does well to call it a "drama" or a play or an act; a show; a
spectacle. 'So' as it lacks mutual reciprocity and the sincerity that comes
of this. What is needed is a 'cyclical selfishness' as a preparatory before
'off' or a dissolve into generality or 'void'; no more, nor known in that
moment, the burden of the 'fabricated solitary self'. Without that 'awe' and
the peripheral power that drives it; that which feeds upon the enclosure of
need and want to preserve a disempowered mass or group of objects, a view
that may well approach one another as less than nothing, cannot last without
a perpetual remembrance of limitation, of 'flaw', of 'wrong' instilled by
the inescapable vapor of that culture itself.

That was the madness Hobbs observed; thus granting the permission for the
State: the gate to be preserved by the battlefield and gloried by the
bloodshed of the damned. This is a 'linear selfishness' preserved by the
State and other institutionalized opportunists such as market activity. We
are finally coming to grips with this flaw by applying working alternatives;
almost as an accident: Wikipedia. It is human artifacts like this that must
be applied diligently and well to the physical world or many more will be
damned by the 'rules of opportunity' at greater moral cost as I have argued
elsewhere.

Power may better become defined as: a 'directed activity': and best achieved
when: an individual's will is transcended and 'becomes' the will of all:
best had after: the most common of basic human needs are met (rather than
promised) by this directed activity.

It is for these reasons we have permission to be optimistic. . . And if not
rewarded by the world around us; inner peace at least 'is'; "struggle" a
previous abstraction; 'true warmth' of a mother's love.


Nathan
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