What POWER do I mean, here?
Science defines POWER as: the rate at which WORK is done,
the energy per unit time, and WORK is defined as a force through a
distance.
So POWER involves force,
distance and time. The more force and
distance, the greater the POWER.
In societies are multiple forms of POWER (besides the
technical variety described above), that involving
- Leadership-management
- Economic-business
- Information-media
- Political-state,
- Personal (individual)-social
- Public and institutional,
…and even spiritual though often disregarded or ignored
amid secularism and materialism.
Where there is power of the kind described above, so too is
the abuse(s) of power; the more power, the more opportunity and then
possibility of corruption—the abuse of power.
Voltaire suggested:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
One may hold solid evidence warranting criticism of someone
or something but, due to the great imbalances of POWER, is effectively
silenced; and thus, that which is legitimate, justified, cannot influence
others or otherwise be heard to voice a sound, solid argument against
strongholds of POWER laden with corruption. Those who know of this…are touched
by it, often deeply hurt by and through halls filled with corruption, injustice
with all its attendant ills.
Voltaire warned:
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Criticisms and be dangerous—and especially when the word
gets out and the world listens and learns.
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