82,891
edits
Template:M intro devil strength: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{quote|{{Power versus strength quote}} :— James P Carse, {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} }} There are many gems in James P. Carse’s masterwork (almost all of them missed by Simon Sinek’s threadbare cash-in, {{Br|The Infinite Game}}, by the way) but the distinction he draws between power and strength is fantastic. Think of power as accumulated, finite resource; a ''historical'' acquisition that is depleted by use, the way a battery loses its charge or a h...") |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{quote|{{Power versus strength quote}} | {{quote|{{Power versus strength quote}} | ||
:— James P Carse, {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} }} | :— James P Carse, {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} }} | ||
There are many gems in [[James P. Carse]]’s masterwork (almost all of them missed by [[Simon Sinek]]’s threadbare cash-in, {{Br|The Infinite Game}}, by the way) but the distinction he draws between power and strength is fantastic. | [[Strength|There]] are many gems in [[James P. Carse]]’s masterwork (almost all of them missed by [[Simon Sinek]]’s threadbare cash-in, {{Br|The Infinite Game}}, by the way) but the distinction he draws between power and strength is fantastic. | ||
Think of power as accumulated, finite resource; a ''historical'' acquisition that is depleted by use, the way a battery loses its charge or a hydro-dam runs out of water. | Think of power as accumulated, finite resource; a ''historical'' acquisition that is depleted by use, the way a battery loses its charge or a hydro-dam runs out of water. | ||
| Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
It is also the time and effort expended to acquire skills, expertise, experience and resilience: the callouses you’ve grown, the toughened hide, the give in your frame, the system redundancies you have acquired. These confer ''strength'' not power. | It is also the time and effort expended to acquire skills, expertise, experience and resilience: the callouses you’ve grown, the toughened hide, the give in your frame, the system redundancies you have acquired. These confer ''strength'' not power. | ||
We talk a lot of [[power | We talk a lot of [[power structure]]s as a kind of pervasive and necessarily pernicious thing: those that are just acquisitions of hoarded resources, used by their owners to tilt the scales and preserve an unfair advantage, fair enough; but those ones are, in the long term, decadent. They eventually crumble. But not all social and political networks are like this: many are ''strength structures'' — mutually reinforcing systems of reciprocal collaboration that are quite different. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Power structure]] | *[[Power structure]] | ||