Ok, here's the point where we short people have to ask you to lower your head so we can kick it!
If 'power' is perpetually being used in all interchanges (or exchanges) then you don't really have to think about it, just acknowledge that it is. For the exercise, perhaps record in your mind various communications and then replay them later to look for various points. Remember that one person's possessing power in this sense doesn't make them The Powerful, it makes them one who communicates and with whom people communicate. Think of your favourite teacher/professor/person who taught you something - they're possessing much power in a particular context, but (usually) it isn't a blunt force thing. Gauge your own interchanges in that -- don't forget to also look in contexts where you're also on the empowering end (lest you get too assumptive that you're on some weird pedestal, which may seem odd, but may be awfully close to conclusions one could draw from this line of thought - "PEOPLE GIVE ME POWER! BEHOLD A-ALMIGHTY!").
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Date: 2003-02-02 12:34 pm (UTC)If 'power' is perpetually being used in all interchanges (or exchanges) then you don't really have to think about it, just acknowledge that it is. For the exercise, perhaps record in your mind various communications and then replay them later to look for various points. Remember that one person's possessing power in this sense doesn't make them The Powerful, it makes them one who communicates and with whom people communicate. Think of your favourite teacher/professor/person who taught you something - they're possessing much power in a particular context, but (usually) it isn't a blunt force thing. Gauge your own interchanges in that -- don't forget to also look in contexts where you're also on the empowering end (lest you get too assumptive that you're on some weird pedestal, which may seem odd, but may be awfully close to conclusions one could draw from this line of thought - "PEOPLE GIVE ME POWER! BEHOLD A-ALMIGHTY!").