| > it's not necessarily one dimensional Or even multidimensional. a "sum across all dimensions" doesn't make sense to me. We are talking about something (power) that differs across contexts, locations, times etc.
Power is as complex as our (human) social organisation, an is not amenable to linear algebra. > people are influenced by the past Unless that is is a result of holding this belief; People are never influenced about the past, only by their subjective, current beliefs about the past. It would make more sense to consider what people believe now. Marxist historical analysis has fallen out of favor for a good reason. > would not go away overnight Desire for power will never go away. The "subset of people" is biased towards how you do your grouping; For example, that I, a white man, am naturally grouped with white slavers of the past, such that modern black Americans have something to resent me for. Your narrative here relies on these kind of groupings in order to talk about "a point of equilibrium" and "no longer in a minority of power" - you need to identify a group as the same over a period of time in order to make these distinctions. |