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Some power structures easier to avoid than others. If you dislike [[cricket]] and despair of cricket administrators, it is little effort to stay away from cricket clubs and all will be well. Not so if you dislike taxation, for example. | Some power structures easier to avoid than others. If you dislike [[cricket]] and despair of cricket administrators, it is little effort to stay away from cricket clubs and all will be well. Not so if you dislike taxation, for example. | ||
Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theory]] is a power structure, made up of lots of little power structures. Power structures often outgrow their original purpose, because it is not the ''purpose'' but the ''power'' that is exciting. | Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theory]] ''is'' a power structure, made up of lots of little power structures. Power structures often outgrow their original purpose, because it is not the ''purpose'' but the ''power'' that is exciting. | ||
===“Power” as a pejorative term=== | ===“Power” as a pejorative term=== | ||