Jamal Awil

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Power scarcity as well as excess tyranny now threatens social consensus [contrarian]

It shifts from the temporal dimension into questions of factual accuracy, of success and of social consensus. This problem situation gets labelled the 'tyrant-complex' and lends itself to traditionally handed-down descriptions. This has always been a danger of too much power, but more recently the danger of 'too little power' has also become recognizable.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 751