I read Power of the Powerless and found his examples to be very good, and easy to understand ideologies. The fact that he uses this title, shows he is comfortable with the commonly found hopelessness when getting people to behave and stand together in order to make others also be responible. He basically is teaching us to get a spine and showing us why we should put forth the collective effort. Any person paying attention to domestic abuse can tell you about ideologies just as the person suffering from addiction. You could also say Peter Kropotkin’s paper stating that all animals require cooperation in order to survive is more the right answer, as compared to Charles Darwin’s Survival of the Fittist. In the long run of evolution, it is the man who communicats with his neighbors and not take advantage, this man is far superior than the bully who will do anything to get what he wants despite how he adversly affects others.
Hurthermore, Peter comments on how nice it would be with out laws. That laws are not needed in a community who gas mtual aid. That if anyone was to act out, then the law would not be there to prevent any man from confronting the other who is behaving; that laws keep the victim from confronting his neighbor so he begins to act civil.
Buckminster Fuller was also a good man who was concerned about our childish behavior and always was thinking how to get us together to deal with this problem. He would invent the bridge linking two peoples who will not meet, mingle, share, and discuss while walking on this new bridge not by force, but by curiosity.
John denver was Mr Fuller’s best friend, and it is worth looking at John Denver’s story as well. He is famous in China and landed in a plane years later not knowing that everyone in China already had been listening tis music for decades.
