I struggled a long time with how to say this. It's really the point of the series and serves as both a reprimand of Republican Hegemony and a warning to our own side about how we need to move forward in the future both at home and abroad.
The problem I identify with power, both for the actor and acted upon, is a lack of control. In Part I, I talked about the consequences of a powerful actor using its power unilaterally. It breeds a feeling of lack of control for the acted upon that can lead to very bad consequences, and uses up a lot of resources for the actor.
In Part II, I talked about the difficulties for the actor in terms of the perceptions of power as opposed to more empirical consequences.
In Part III I will talk about a more abstract danger directly to the actor in regards to using power. The lack of control. This leads to the corruption.
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