To determine which side is firmly in power, see which side's positions are better understood by the other side.
Power is good or bad... depends to whom. Do you identify with the mind-manipulating sociopathic rulers, or with humans? By discussing with me on twitter, you reveal yourself as human, so identification with the rulers would be a mistake, and power is bad.
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I don't think that identification can be part of genuine understanding. I also don't see how we can deduce that it is more human to be to tweet than to govern, both are human activities. Societies without governance don't scale, as you can derive from game theoretic models.
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Btw, I don't think of power as good or bad. Power is not moral, but freedom to do what you want, and is given by circumstances, knowledge, skills and the ability to buffer consequences if you don't want what's offered. The use of power may have good or bad consequences, of course
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