How to go beyond the equation of power
or: why striving for power will not save our problems
1. Racism is one form to use and concentrate power.
2. Always when power is concentrated it happens for the good or advantage of one certain group - the group which is concentrating this power
3. In oder to enlarge and concentrate power you need to know that power and its concentration is managed via a certain set of rules
4. These rules are set up by the group which is dominating the system at a certain moment
5. This means that if you strive to enlarge the power of one group you have to follow the rules which determine who has power, what is power and how power is becoming visible, is showing its impact in reality
6. This rules in our case are determined since hundreds of years by the system. Which is opressing us
7. Even if the opressed group manages to initiate a shift of power for their advantage this also means that this shif of power is only possible by following exactly those rules which are made to opress those who are not in power
8. Evenif the opressed group manages to initiate a shift opf power fortheir advantage it is very propable that they are only able to keep that power by again repeating the existing patterns of opression
9. This is no moral question. It is a system-immanent answer
10. The system of power is built on people striving for power
11. The system of power is built on people following the rule-set of power and power-shifting
12. A power shift is nothing else than the mirrored repetition of opression
13. The fear of losing this power, the purpose of keeping power is the reason for opressive patterns
14. This fear is an immanent part of power - and at the same time it is its biggest weakness
15. If we want to fight opression, we need to go beyond the patterns of power and its rules, its order - otherwise we stay inside a neverending circle of elements opressing each other
16. This is why the real wy to stop opression and to play out neverending power-shifts is to leave the box of its rules, its patterns
17. Power and in this case its rules is based on a simple equation containing those in power and those not in power
18. Those in power are the opressors - those not in power are the opressed
19. Those in power cannot exist without the opressed
20. Those in power fear losing their power
21. Those in power lose their power if the opressed stop striving for power
22. Power here is defined as the certain ruleset explained until this point
23. Those opressed are striving for power hoping for a change
24. Those opressed forget that striving for power means striving to stay within the cage and ruleset of power
25. Those opressed forget about their biggest power
26. The biggest power of the opressed is having no power
27. The biggest power of the opressed is having no fear of losing power (because they have none defined trough the patterns and rules in place defining opression as main way to keep power)
28. Power is an illusion of opressors built by the patterns of a certain ruleset defining power
29. Power is an illusion of opressors built on the adoption that everyone wants to have and be in power
30. Power is an illusion for the opressed built on the adoption that being in power would lead to change (but it does not)
31. Change can not be reached by repeating and following the ruleset of power in place - as it is made to opress those not in power
32. Change can not be reached within this closed system
33. Change is only possible if on one of those 2 sides inside the equation of power one variable/factor would be changed
34. If the equation of power is : Dominating Factors opress Marginalized Factors - the marginalized factors can only switch to the other side and become the new Dominating Factors (which will opress in order to keep their power)
35. This means that change is not to find inside the equation of power because the ruleset of it will always be determined by the Dominating. Factors
36. This means that change can only be found by changing the ruleset itself
37. The ruleset of power is just one ruleset of many rulesets in this world
38. The ruleset of change is not working inside the ruleset of power as it has to operate one level (or many levels) above the power ruleset
39. I repeat why: Striving for real change can not mean to operate with the existing ruleset of power
40. Operating in this case includes following and breaking the rules as you act within the system
41. Change is initiated by operating at the level above „power“
42. This level is the value-structure determining the reasons why people strive for power
43. It means that we should strive for a shift of values - a much more complex process than a shift of power
44. Shifting values in the end will also shift power - but beyond that it will change the ruleset of power
45. Dont strive for power and its rules
46. Strive for the values that will change these rules
47. Operating on the level of values is a transgenerational process, the process of determining the Zeitgeist of one generation, the mindset of many generations, the path of humanity
48. Its not about having the power to decide something. Thats a low level operation.
49. Its about determining the rules of values on a high level operation - which the leaders of the future have to follow in order to enlarge their power on the low level operation.
50. If you choose to leave the equation in which you are the opressed group - the equation doesnt work any more
51. If you choose to change the equation you have to operate on the higher level equation (values) determining the factors of the lower equation (power)
52. To understand in a simple way: Dictator-Regimes and Democratic Systems differn on the level of values - how they act to keep and enlarege their power (factors in low level operations of power) is determined by the values (higher level equation)
53. Power Shifts are possible within middle-term time-frames - if you follow the existing ruleset of power - but it will empower and repeat systems of opression inside it
54. Value Shifts are a long-term, transgenerational process - but by following this path you leav the equation of opression, expose the weakness of the systems power at the present moment and change the variables/factors of how power is reached and kept in the future
55. There is no opression without the opressed
56. There is no power without powerless
57. There is no change through „simple“ power-shifts
58. Change is possible through value shifts which will rewrite the ruleset of having and enlarging power in the future
59. If that change is reached through the level of values - a power shift will not be necessary anymore as „power“ will be defined and determined by a new ruleset
60. The biggest power of the opressed is having no power - and implicitly - no fear of losing power in the context of the opressing ruleset
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