The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.

that's what power is. It's just ability and desire without restriction.

The solution is, everywhere and always, the decentralization and redistribution of all forms of power.

You want stories that make sense, and this might not make sense to you. We build narratives of genius and exceptionality among the people who have power, and they are often exceptional, but no more exceptional than hundreds of thousands of others. In your system, power concentrates naturally. And so the thing that is most exceptional about a powerful person is almost always their power.

It was telling that he had taken responsibility for the thing that he did...but he did not mention the things done in his name. This was always the way of these strongmen. They would craft the fear so carefully and then toss it into the world for everyone to use. And when someone took that fear and destroyed with it, they were just "unstable" or "mentally ill".

Power concentrates naturally, but that concentration is, by itself, a problem.

Power is just a lack of constraint.

They tell you power corrupts. They never tell you how quickly.

Power only does all its business of empowering when it's perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.