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It is [[Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.|fashionable]] to speak loosely about “power” in our time — much of [[critical theory]] is a manifesto against the violence [[Power structure|power structures]] do to the marginalised — and Carse’s distinction between “power” and “strength” reminds us to exercise care. | It is [[Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.|fashionable]] to speak loosely about “power” in our time — much of [[critical theory]] is a manifesto against the violence [[Power structure|power structures]] do to the marginalised — and Carse’s distinction between “power” and “strength” reminds us to exercise care. | ||
Sure, social hierarchies can be pernicious, where operated by those engaged in a fight to the death, but most people are not. [[Critical theory|Critical theories]] themselves are [[paradigm]]s — social hierarchies of just this kind. Those who who favour any form of communal organisation more developed that flapping around in primordial sludge will concede that social arrangements don’t ''have'' to be destructive: they can be ''con''structive, enabling, levers to prosperity and betterment for everyone who wants it. If we call such a centralised, curated, defended store of knowledge for sharing a “strength structure” it does not sound so ominous. | |||
{{quote|“Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish ''as a result of my play with them'', but because I can allow them to do what they wish ''in the course of my play with them''.”}} | |||
===Society versus culture=== | ===Society versus culture=== | ||