What is the nature of power? How does one obtain it? Why do some men go to any lengths to acquire it, even murder and betrayal? Is power simply the ability to sway people to do what you want, or does it reflect more elaborate institutions and organizational structures such as the ability to enforce laws or mobilize military might?
>>877782
Power is the possibility of obtaining desired objects.
>>877782
power is the belief of others that you have power
>>877825
So King really is the strongest in S-class?
>>877782
>Is power simply the ability to sway people to do what you want, or does it reflect more elaborate institutions and organizational structures such as the ability to enforce laws or mobilize military might?
Power is the ability to get people to do what you want. The desire for power evolved because getting people to do what you want could get you sex and improve your chances of survival by getting resources. This is reflected in the way institutions of power can regulate resources and, to lesser extent, sex, so basically things come full circle.
>>877782
It's worship. People want to be worshiped. And some people will go to any lengths to achieve that goal.
Power is an illusion
>What is the nature of power?
Nature of power in the modern world is vastly different from the 'power' of ancient world.
A progressive shift of power and type of civilization has ocurred from one "caste" to the next since prehistoric times.
It starts from "Sacred leaders" or "God-Kings", to a warrior aristocracy. Then to the merchants and and finally to the serfdom.
In the West and East, the representatives of the divine royalty and the leaders who embody the two powers (spiritual and temporal) were the first hierarchy of power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
After this, authority descended to the level below, that is, to the caste of the warriors. The stage was then set for monarchs who were mere military leaders, lords of temporal justice and, in more recent times, politically absolute sovereigns. . During this stage, the fides cementing the state no longer had a religious character, but only a warrior one; it meant loyalty, faithfulness, honor. This was essentially the age and the cycle of the Great European monarchies.
Then a second collapse ocurred as the aristocracies began to fall into decay and the monarchies to shake at the foundations; through revolutions and constitutions they became useless institutions subject to the "will of the nation," and sometimes they were even ousted by different regimes. The principle characterizyng this state of affairs was: "The king reigns but he does not rule." Together with parliamentary republics the formation of the capitalist oligarchies revealed the shift of power from the second caste (the warrior) to the modern equivalent of the third caste (the mercantile class).
The kings of the coal, oil, and iron industries replace the previous kings of blood and of spirit. We enter modern era.
