Power is a unique and ubiquitous concept. Power has been the focus of social and political apparati since time immemorial. Humans have a way of focusing power in tools. Physical tools and conceptual tools. Humans tend to concentrate power. Humans have a way of physicalizing power. Deleuze approximately viewed old civilizations as having sovereign power. Meaning if you didn't like what the king said you would die. With feudal and industrial age systems we had control power; it was about your body, your work, your institution, whether you were in a factory, a school, a prison, a homemaker, you were assigned a physical space to be. Now we have access power; you are limited based on your characteristics and your data, about what you can get, where you can go, where you can circulate ... borders, scores, admissions, acceptance ... it all adds up in a more abstract and identity based way, more representational and piecemeal but very real.
So where are we? Nationalism is cleaving the world into deconstructive and destructive pieces. The world is hemorrhaging. We like country identity b/c it is simple to understand and process and we are tribal. But obviously we are all humans, and the antagonism is mortal. We have this myth of competition. Competition is good if we realize it's a game, but if we take it seriously it can be death. Cooperation and coordination is the basic and ultimate human condition. We all come from somewhere and have something to give. Neoliberalism is nihilism. We must erase this destructive state of affairs that we've convinced ourselves in our ignorance is the fait accompli of capitalistic reality. It's deathly bullshit.
As anything, an over concentration is toxic. That is the state of our centralized, overbearing, over burdened, and castrating systems. We've taken things to the extreme of sucking the air out of the world. It's epistemically masculine. We are out of sorts. Only thru a rebalancing can we regain health. Unfortunately in our death culture, in our thanatos fanaticism we don't give up power willingly. We don't pass down healthy things to the next generation. It is the rigor mortis of our ethical state.
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