E.g. a fast BMW that doesn’t use blinkers is considered an asshole. The maneuvers are only safe if everyone is assumed to be relatively static caricatures of obstacles.
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To move quickly and callously, giving people no time to react is forceful. To do the same slowly and in a highly visible way is powerful.
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When others aren’t given the opportunity to react there is a forceful siphoning of power. Being forceful disempowers.
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Power empowers because it’s acting as an Eternal Flame. It’s illusory for the most part since you can’t bind the infinite. What’s important is relative infiniteness.
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Employees getting a salary from a billionaire is this sacred flame dynamic within the corporate world. An effective limitless number of torches can be lit without dimming the central light.
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It’s why micro managing managers seem like dicks. What the scared flame can do is banish or accept but it should never stoop to managing individual torches itself as if light were a rare resource.
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It makes the leader seem all too mortal and is also indicative that the “torch” of empowerment may just be a hand crank powered toy flashlight.
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An issue with slow powerful movements is similar to how most “good” drivers just fade into the background. They don’t “feel” powerful.
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Encountering a bad driver makes you feel weak which makes you want to be strong which can create more bad drivers. Assholeness is justified the more assholeness is encountered. (Broken window effect at the psyche)
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