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I look aghast at the world around myself, the outside to my being. The outside is structured by relationships of power. There is the exploiter-exploited relationship. There is the ruler-subject relationship. There is the majority-minority relationship. Every relationship is one of power.

Throughout life, I have been involved in each of these relationships. I have also been systematically corrupted by power and its effects on my mind and body. I have been the most horrible of villains. In each case, context coerced a state of being.

As I sit here with a fresh page before me and a flight into anonymity, I wonder to myself if there could ever be a place without power relationships. What would such a place look like, where there was perfect equality? Where each had all the power and none the power? Can such a place exist?

In the Sikh religion, Sikhs all sit on the floor to promote an ideal of equality when they attend a place of worship. However, even there, power relationships must exist. Some have more wealth, some more influence.

One thinks of a picture where there is no power. All that I can think of is a place without any relationships. One man as an island. And even then, power will already have corrupted the individual.

We cannot live our life without power. There is no freedom from power. You wish to escape from politics? Perspectives collide everywhere. One form of seeing, reading, being clashes with all others. Without the clash, could there ever be anything?