Our species is
known to have powers and abilities it doesn’t use, a good part of which fall
into the category known as powers of the mind — but
which could more correctly be referred to as the power of power”. It is
worthwhile pointing up one such power — the power of discovering and
accumulating knowledge and then
the power of access and having jurisdiction over it.
WHAT POWERS DO
SOCIETAL POWER STRUCTURES WORK TO CONTAIN, CONTROL, OR SUPPRESS?
The simple reality is
that the powerful NEED the presence of the powerless to have something to have
power over, specifically in terms of control, authority, and influence. Thus,
ways and means must be discovered and implemented to keep the majority of the people
as powerless as possible.
In that sense, if
the powerless became aware of those ways and means, then significant numbers of
the powerless would object to them. So those ways and means must at least be as
invisibly subtle as possible, and even quite secret if necessary. And indeed,
it is quite probable that writing and literacy can be secretly managed on
behalf of this or that power structure.
EMPOWERMENT ITEMS
TO IDENTIFY AND CONCEPTUALIZE GENERAL AREAS OF SOCIETAL SECRECY THAT WOULD
BE NECESSARY TO PERPETUATE POWERLESSNESS AMONG THE POWERLESS.
As also discussed
earlier, the “others” have to be present to have power over them. So wherever
humans go they will transport with them the techniques of ensuring the presence
of the “others.” Logically speaking, in terms of empowerment and disempowerment, the others need to be kept in conditions
of disempowerment, to not become empowered enough to become troublesome to the
powerful.
So, techniques
rigged to guarantee their depowered existence range from brute force to elegant
and subtle conditioning that can produce what is called “cooperative obedience or
submission.”
These were the
techniques used by the powers-to-be to keep people uninformed and mind
controlled.
