Force is always a tool. It is necessary to know who owns it / Power to manipulate starts with such things.
Force is always a tool. It is necessary to know who owns it.
The use of force is reserved for the government. This helps keep competing powers and thugs from establishing their own rules and their own ways. This is how governments regulate aggression and fear. This is how they establish order, law and protection. This is also a changeable position, challenged by those who wish access to the force they deem necessary to protect their interests, to advance their interests. This is also a changeable position by those who respect not government, find government an impediment, wish to establish powers of their own. Governmental force, non governmental force, both, may be bought and sold. The question is always begged .... the challenging of this force always threatens chaos. Lack of checks upon same brings a submissive society.
The force of power is challenged for abundant reasons, acceptable to the common good, unacceptable to it. The will to master sanctioned force keeps government functioning. This functioning may be mastered by the interests of many, the few. The pressure upon those who control the trigger, the use, is invited often.
Pro government, anti government .... force is always a tool. It is always the means to societal safety. It is necessary to know who owns it.
The power to manipulate starts with such things.
A world of wage slaves and survivors is a world that needs to clamor for order, an order that may enable the wage givers to survive and stay whole and profitable. Those others wishing to become wage slaves need order so that there may be a hope of expansion so that they may have wages as well. This is a dependency factor, the dependency upon those who have the means, the power, the wealth to create valued, needed opportunity and growth. All dependency factors work well into the hands of those who can become the masters in the equation, the party upon which dependency is bestowed. The power to manipulate starts with such things.
Those in position to be divorced from the rest of their societies by reason of freedom of movement, wealth, access to state or personal force, access to the all little power vacuums or power positions need work the dependant other. It is in their interests to create or allow to be created systems, states where such dynamics are in play.