But these good and necessary activities do not address how to channel individuals away from the desire to gain power over others.
The insecurity of wage dependence and the threat of poverty make people seek power. Controlling people are driven by insecurity, first and foremost.
Think carefully before you say this. I believe it leads to heresies like that suffering is an unmitigated bad and not the necessary precondition for productivity or even just pleasure.
It leads to young persons not fearing flunking out of school. Are you really ready to sign up for things like that?
I heard an NPR program about the U.S. president who got assassinated some 100 or 120 years ago. Garfield? Arthur? Anyway, he flat out said that he grew up pool and all it "did" for him was to waste years of his life.
I personally testify that I wish I did not have to live in fear all the time for all my life. (Maybe freedom from fear would have made a zombie out of me? That's what "some people" -- and not all of them to the right of Reagan and Bush, if one says it in a delicate way -- seem to believe. As if they knew what was good for me, or even just for themselves -- read Alica Miller: _The Drama of the Gifted Child_, _For Your Own Good_, and _Thou Shalt Not Be Aware_).
\brad mccormick
Power is only bad when it's abused. Everyone can't drive the bus at the same time, and whoever is driving will have more power the the riders. We need rules to limit power, rather than futile efforts to abolish power.
Barry B.
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