The Story So far: The Mindful Activist Topic ArchiveAsk me anything. :)What are ideas for upcoming episodes of The Mindful Activist?Born into a power hierarchy involving parents, siblings, and others we later discover are virtually powerless beyond the walls of our home.I saw my mother and father as the two most powerful beings. My siblings as a mixed bag. My neighbors as curiosities. My peers as rivals and friends and potentials. Older children as a source of great danger and excitement. Aliens as something only inPerhaps all humans are born initially into a hierarchy and therefore hierarchy is trained into us from the beginning.To imagine a world in which all beings have a reasonable level of power, that balances the ideal of equality with the ideal of privacy and generous personal boundaries and autonomy is difficult...I think many children begin life thinking they live in such a world, a world where the most powerful beings (your gaurdians) are continuously enforching fairness and justice...Yet, one of the most important and inevitable lessons children eventually learn is that life is not fair, and the belief its fairness and justice will be maintained by the powerful is a myth.When humans become adults, they begin to compete for power. The systems we have created offer no alternative but competition.The greatest power on earth controls the power of life and death through the control of resources needed for life or by controlling the tools of brute force and violence.Chatgpt: armies, police forces, and prisons. .The greatest power on earth does not necessarily control the power of life and death, but the control of resources needed for life can be a form of power..
The greatest power on earth controls the power of life and death through the control of resources needed for life or by controlling the tools of brute force and violence. (hivelink)