Power and control

 

As in the previous post I will try and examine these closely linked ideas,

which I might say again has occupied the attention and thought, in 

various ways, of many generations.

First I might mention some " sources " of power which might be

somewhat obvious.  I am only going to mention two, the moon

and the sun.  But of course there are a great many things that

we can refer to as sources.  

But we experience the the relationships between power and

control a lot.   Three pretty obvious examples would be

a stove, a car, and a furnace.  Before furnaces of course

there was simply " fire ".   Well, many people have had

experience with the power in a car, in the absence of 

control,  and the unpleasant results of that.  Likewise

many people have experienced unpleasant results of

the absence of control in relation to what's going on 

with a stove, and likewise with a furnace.

This combination of ideas , are expressed also in a subjective

way in relation to our bodies.  Sometimes, we experience a lot

of power but not so much control, and also a good deal of

control, without the kind of power we might like to have.

So, this is about as far as I can go with this, but I should

mention the idea of humor, which is clearly connected

to some kind of subjective power and control.