Replying to LO24470 --
>Power is the aggregated form of all a particular societies values, it is
>the systems of values from the systems point of view.
and
>I am not talking about personal power which
>can construed to mean grandiosity and succession and physical power.
Dear Gavin,
personal power and power in the two quotes seem to be exchangable, aren't
they?
Personal power is the aggregated form of all a particular persons values...
and
I am not talking about that power which can construed to mean grandiosity...
May I conclude, that you realize at least two forms of power: destructive
and constructive? And I guess that both appear on personal and collective
level.
For many, grandiosity is a value. I read you as saying that in this case
(grandiosity is honoured as a value) something with power went wrong,
became destructive (construed). And when you write about helping other
people to live healthier fuller lives, you mean this as an expression of
archetypical constructive application of power. Further I guess, that when
you say that you apply anything that works, you mean anything that works
constructively - of course, you may say.
To become or not to become is not the question anymore, the answer is to
become. The new question is to become constructively or to become
destructively. And how to distinguish in theory and practice.
I would mistrust anyone who claims to have the answers. You and At and so
many others on this list do seriously struggle with this question. And
this is what makes you dear to me.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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