Point well taken, Arthur. I had forgotten a distinction I was proud of making in a number of papers I wrote in graduate school between positive and negative power and slipped into the rut of thinking of power in negative terms as a general thing.
Clearly, the kind of power I was referring to was the negative power as generally thought of as the ability to prevail over the resistance of others (I think it may have been Max Weber who phrased it in some such way). Just as clearly there are many other, very positive kinds of power, as you have properly indicated. I think the context of my remarks about power as a destructive value had to do with the worship of power to prevail against others that I see as being considered a value in and of itself and that I see as being used to the detriment of everyone, even those who hold it. In our society, what I refer to as negative power actually gets in the way of other kinds of power emerging to enrich people's lives. Selma ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:00 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Why men succeed at work > human power > spiritual power > group power > psychic power > relgious power > environmental ethics > sexual power > ...... > > What sort of power did you have in mind Selma???? > > arthur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Selma Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:10 PM > To: Salvador R. S�nchez Guti�rrez; Harry Pollard > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why men succeed at work > > > 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? > > Selma > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Salvador R. S�nchez Guti�rrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 12:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why men succeed at work > > > > Sure. Why not? But I don�t think it's a question of economic systems. I > > think that it have to do with power, and the kind of person someone has to > > be in order to get access to power. Hypothesis: the more power is at > stake, > > the higher the possibility of finding sociopaths or psychopaths in the > race. > > Salvador > > > > From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Salvador S�nchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 8:06 PM > > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Why men succeed at work > > > > > > Salvador, > > > > Of course these same people would head the controlled economy in a > > socialist system. > > > > Capitalism and Socialism are, of course, comparable. > > > > Harry > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > Salvador wrote: > > > > >Sounds terrible, but experience -this side of the border too- tells me > that > > >you are right. > > >Is it possible in today business environment to be "functional" acting as > a > > >healthy person? I don�t think so. > > > > > >salvador > > > > > > > > > > My impression is that most who make it big in the present business > > > > atmosphere are sociopaths or psychopaths. Dangerous. But sometimes > > very > > > > rich and powerful so much so that no one really talks about it until > of > > > > course they cross the line and break one law or another. > > > > > > > > arthur > > > > > > > > **************************************************** > > Harry Pollard > > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > > **************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > ---- > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.493 / Virus Database: 292 - Release Date: 6/25/2003 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
