Power arrives from outside and it arrives repeatedly. The native's account features people who would not yield: a superior who could not be got round, a family member whose will governed the household, a legal or bureaucratic body that simply outlasted them. Each episode is real. What the sequence suggests is that this native does not avoid such encounters, they seek out the situation where the stakes are total, because a contest that could be settled reasonably holds no interest for them at all.
Intimate life carries the same charge. Attraction under this opposition is strong, mutual and structured around a question of who prevails, so the relationships are intense and the endings are rarely amicable. The native either surrenders and then extracts the price slowly, or dominates and cannot understand why the other person eventually goes silent. Both positions belong to the same axis. Money, sex and the disposal of a joint estate are the usual grounds on which the matter finally becomes explicit.
Resolution is not surrender and it is not victory. It consists in the native owning that they want power, saying so in plain language, and then negotiating for it like an adult, which removes the whole apparatus of hidden struggle at a stroke. Those who reach that point are exceptionally good at handling other powerful people, because nothing about the transaction shocks them. Those who do not spend a lifetime in a series of total contests, winning a fair number, and finding each victory strangely unsatisfying within a month.
What It Gives
- ◆unafraid of powerful people
- ◆endurance in long contests
- ◆clear sight of hidden motives
- ◆candour about wanting power
What It Costs
- ◆stakes raised to total
- ◆struggle conducted underground
- ◆victories that satisfy briefly
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