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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]] | ||