To effect something greater than themselves
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:54 am
This is as true for the social and political world created by our species as it is for the cosmos independent of our existence.
Without power to hold them together entities disintegrate. Without the power to feed itself a biological entity disintegrates. Identity of any kind can not be understood without reference to the power of the entity possessing the given identity.
At the very source of life is the "alliance" of R.N.A.and D.N.A. he multi-cell organism itself is an empire with its defence system (immune system) and its will to growth, and of course, its striving for posterity job function email list through procreation. Scientists agree that a qualification for life is the ability to reproduce. All this necessitates power. Power, which is so often glibly mocked and denounced on principle (all power corrupts, and absolute power absolutely), power is the source and explanation of all life.
There are many kinds of power. There is power of matter, by which I mean lifeless power, the power of the elements of chemistry, of mass and velocity and not least and crucial to life, the power of energy (the unconscious will of Mother Nature). These powers may of course be harnessed by conscious power but are not in themselves conscious. (Power over a gun is a conscious power, the power of the gun itself is not.) There is the deliberate power of material strength.
Without power to hold them together entities disintegrate. Without the power to feed itself a biological entity disintegrates. Identity of any kind can not be understood without reference to the power of the entity possessing the given identity.
At the very source of life is the "alliance" of R.N.A.and D.N.A. he multi-cell organism itself is an empire with its defence system (immune system) and its will to growth, and of course, its striving for posterity job function email list through procreation. Scientists agree that a qualification for life is the ability to reproduce. All this necessitates power. Power, which is so often glibly mocked and denounced on principle (all power corrupts, and absolute power absolutely), power is the source and explanation of all life.
There are many kinds of power. There is power of matter, by which I mean lifeless power, the power of the elements of chemistry, of mass and velocity and not least and crucial to life, the power of energy (the unconscious will of Mother Nature). These powers may of course be harnessed by conscious power but are not in themselves conscious. (Power over a gun is a conscious power, the power of the gun itself is not.) There is the deliberate power of material strength.