Power is not having to deal with the negative externalities of your own choices. It's okay to seek power, but it shouldn't be confused with virtue. You may act in ways that never require you to ask for help, but you might still act in ways that force others to. Moral hazard.
I think where you and I might agree is that any skill and real earned agency is valuable and any kind of learned helplessness is bad. So long as you are adequately mindful about the value/meaning you ascribe to your agency.
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"Let them eat cake" is a real syndrome. For a queen, the "obvious" solution to not having bread is to eat cake. That sort of thing seems to count as "skill" to some. And that "skill" is then used to justify lecturing starving people to not act helpless.
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I need to go, but I tried to describe treating this kind of pragmatic manipulation as competence in one of my last few posts...will try to find it when I get back.
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Well said.
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