all of you, including your shadow, has access to your power
- which means that if you have power of any kind, whether formal rank or simply social influence, all of your motives, including ones you aren't aware of, will tend to use that power to meet their various ends
- which means that the leader of a group will unconsciously tend to make their personal blindspot into the group's collective blindspot
- which naturally leads to cult dynamics
- without any malevolent intent required
- it's pretty different, but somehow usefully evocative perhaps:
- somehow the image of Fight Club comes to mind, about how because Tyler Durden and the narrator are two personalities in the same body and nobody else knows the difference, the narrator commands a kind of social power he doesn't realize
- I think I mentioned this in the #11 Malcolm Ocean & The Non-Naive Trust Dance
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March 8th, 2021
- I would add something like all of you, including your shadow, has access to your power which means that to the extent the person with power has drives they're not aware of and are keeping themselves from becoming aware of, those drives will use all the power the person has