[snip]So you guys don't think it's possible to conceive of a human social system in which power would not be the prevailing value?
I think the difficulty of constraining (etc.) the role of power in a human social system varies more than linearly inversely with the number of persons in the system.
In a face-to-face colonial/Federalist period American town, or a classical Greek polis, or a native tribe (or maybe Norway today???) I think the chances are far better than in "The Middle Kingdom" or classical Maya civilization or today's USA or China or India or Indonesia or whatever.
A second consideration is universal abundance. As one of the guru Bubba Free John's book's title goes (I have mentioned this before):
The Feeding Gorilla Comes in Peace
Keep 'em hungry ("lean and mean"), and crowd
'em in -- the Pearl River basin area of
China, which most recently gave us SARS,
may become the first 100 million person
metropolitan area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TMTC ("too many to count")
Also, read Elias Canetti's fine book:
Crowds and Power
\brad mccormick
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