Message-ID: <199704052310.SAA19384@shell.monmouth.com> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:10:00 -0500 From: Wilbur Streett <mailto:wstreett@MONMOUTH.COM> Subject: Re: Power Politics To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 12:12 PM 4/5/97 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Wilbur Streett wrote:
>snip>
>> There have been a series of posts here about "evil society". The power lies
>> in the people, not the institutions of our societies. We just forget that
>> from time to time.
>
>Clearly we must one of the lucky ones who have the power and thus naively
>(or deliberately) believe everyone does too.
You only have the power that you believe that you have. If you believe that you are powerless, then you are.
>PLease wake up! although you're partially right when you say that "The
>power lies in the people" but you have to finish that thought:...in the
>people that are in the higher levels of the institutions of our societies!
Only in your mind. Perhaps you never heard the phrase the that King is a slave to society?
>and we cannot forget that because we are reminded and see it everyday!
I don't see that at all.
Wilbur ----------------------------------------- Putting a Human Face On Technology ;-) -----------------------------------------