What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.
If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Power is the ability to get things done.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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