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"The Three Faces Of Power" "The first face is the myth of American democracy, that everyone has equal power, and society or politics is just the give and take of different interest groups that come together and participate, with the best ideas and most active participants winning. This face says that the losers are basically lazy. The second face says it's more complex than that, that some groups have more power than others, and actually control the agenda, so that somethings, like the distribution of property, never get discussed. The third face of power is operating when we stop noticing that some things aren't on the agenda, and start believing that unequal decisions, they're 'Just the way things are' At this point even the powerless perceive unjust social relations as the natural order. He paused before he said something that has haunted me ever since: "Conspiracy's unnecessary when everyone thinks the same." - endgame Volume 1 The problem of civilization by Derrick Jensen.

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