A celebration and honouring of a power

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Laws, custom, fashion, tradition must be able to exercise a power in themselves, the power of dissuasion (penalty) and the power of persuasion (consensus). There are two core elements of power then: psychological and physical. Both increase by drawing on their own capital, that is to stay the effect of the evidence of power on others is to increase that power. Success creates success, money earns money, a manifestation of physical power evokes admiration and draws adherence to it. Power is to a large extent a legitimization in itself, not least in democracies, where the importance of becoming a "serious" force by achieving a certain power base is crucial for a political movement or a lobby.

The turning of the reality of power into an aesthetic of phone number list power is called glory. The right to exercise power we give to authority because authority is credited with greater knowledge or access to knowledge or greater ability to put that knowledge to effect than the one on whom authority is imposed. The compensation of abandoning power to authority is that the authority should shoulder a responsibility in proportion to the authority assumed. The justification of authority in terms of the acceptance of the greater access to knowledge and the responsibility assumed is called legitimacy.

The political question of the coming century is what will be the source of the legitimacy of authority in the world. There are four broad tendencies which can be identified in terms of their claim to the source of legitimacy of power: