INTRODUCTION
The DNC-CCP utilizes a version of leftism (the assumption that the self can rescue the self by becoming absorbed in the uniform social) that uses the word power almost always in a pejorative sense. Their philosophers base the justification of their deconstructing systems on this claim that they will end power in this world, a silly notion if you think of power as being something akin to gravity, a neutral element or condition of being, nothing more.
To counter the DNC-CCP’s characterization of power, I offer you a theory in progress about the nature of power, the nature of action, and what kinds of ways of being produce the type of power the DNC-CCP is really talking about (and promising to end, while perpetuating that very power).
I will keep this as phenomenological in language as possible, save for the end, when the “solution” to managing real power is offered.
DEFINING POWER
Power is the perception of the potential to influence action and the perception of the consequence of action.
Power is a neutrality. It is neither good nor bad, oppressive or liberating.
Power exists outside of perception, but the self only knows power through perception. The reality of power is beyond our perception and is influenced by it. The reality of power influences perception, to varying degrees, with each selfness equipped differently to be able to create perception that is not reflective of the underlying reality of power.
I have divided power into three primary types, though all manifestations of power (pre-or-post action) have some degree of all three primary types.
TYPES OF POWER
Coercive– A selfness with advantaged power utilizes it to force an other selfness(es) to take action not consensually willed.
Cooperative – A selfness with advantaged power utilizes it to give an other selfness(es) limited choices not consensually willed.
Consensual – Selfnesses exchange action without utilizing any advantaged power they may possess to limit the consensual choice of will.
There is no pure consensual power.
THE BASE OF ACTION
Power is the fruit of the necessity to fulfil preference, which produces action, which produces the perception of the potential to influence action and the perception of the consequence of action.
The base of action (actuine baza) is preference. The base of preference is the apex existential, the will to be perceived by self and non-self as becoming, having been, or continuing to be an existential excellence.
THE PATHS OF APEX EXISTENTIALITY
The self pursues the highest potential perceived apex existentiality that can be reflected back to the self by non-selfness, especially non-selfness the self identifies as being a part of themselves.
That path leads to two extremes, perceiving the self become a finite God on earth on one extreme, and perceiving the self becoming eternally more like a God that cannot be finitely defined on the other extreme. The first extreme leads to coercion. The second extreme leads to consensuality.
As the self perceives limit, the self adapts their apex existentiality. They can change their new model to fit something they perceive they can become an apex existentiality in or they can switch from directly becoming to vicariously becoming.
Limit is an awareness of self-sin, self-lack, and non-self-dependence. The less the self perceives self-sin, self-lack, and non-self-dependence, the more the self is inclined to pursue the coercive apex existential path, directly or indirectly becoming in the here and now a finitely-defined god.
THE PATH TO CONSENSUAL POWER
All humans are becoming god or pursuing God. If pursuing your god leads your god to become finitely definable and offers a chance to fulfill salvation (redemption from sin and liberation from self-lack and non-self-dependence) in the here and now, you switch to becoming God, vicariously or directly, which leads to habits of coercive action against non-selfnesses.
All political, philosophical, and theological theories that create finite understanding of sin, lack, and self-dependence, create systems of coercion.
All political, philosophical, and theological theories that create pursuits of an understanding of sin, lack, and non-self-dependence that is not capable of being finitely understood, create systems of consensual exchange.
A sovereign God who gives guidance without revealing the finite details, in face or Word, creates systems of consensual exchange that can only be sustained by pursuing becoming more and more like the sovereign God, who alone possesses finite knowledge and understanding of the reality of power.
There is only one God who does this, He is the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit revealed in His Word and in His manifestation of creation to we who are made in the image (the vision) of God.
