The suggestion of power
Who is the one that guides you? –my guru
And who is your guru? –the one who guides me.
Simply there is no human being stripped of their followers, of their social environment and their material resources, whatever nature they may be, that can be named as a person with power.
To put it more clearly, POWER DOES NOT EXIST BY ITSELF, it always depends on these mentioned factors.
What happens when we perceive that someone has some type of power? It is easy to explain, we have become "infected" with attributions that for some reason, which may be social, economic, or of any other nature, are projected onto that person.
Then another question arises: How did they achieve it? They achieved it because they are embodying or dramatizing attributes that for a certain society and determined time are common. These attributions are sometimes global, for example the skill to accumulate material possessions (economic power) or the ability to lead others (political power), but at other times, to consider a person powerful, much less is needed. In a lost tribe of the Amazon, the best hunter or the sorcerer who knows the plants that cure a disease can be considered a person with power.
Power has no benevolent or malevolent condition, it is an end in itself.
Social reality indicates that it depends on the culture and even more on the freedom of those who make up the whole. If we all felt free, there would be no people with power, only individuals more apt for a task than others.
It is sustained by our need to delegate responsibility to others, and there is no determined ideology that contradicts it. All ideologies, even the most reactionary ones, are subject to an organizational structure that promotes power relations.
Eliminating those who promote it is quite simple. It only requires creating a society in which individuals are educated to strengthen their personal responsibility and their worth, since power is directly proportional to the dependence that those who pursue it and hold it create.
It is not coincidental that those who raised the flag of freedom, equality and community among men were always persecuted by dominant power.
The surprising paradox occurs that those historical figures who tried to explain these things were not followed so much to solve this dilemma as for being considered people with power. It may be that in our genetic base we are conditioned by it.
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