one side of an argument.* But it was helpful.* I don't like
quoting ppl without their permission.* I quoted E.T. once.
Hollywood, musicians and sports figures are the American
equivalents of Royalty. We need Royalty. They entertain us with
their antics when they're not working and we pay them for it.
Why do we need them? Because nobody cares about politicians.
-Kenneth Udut, quoting himself again, Apr 24 2015
Oprah Winfrey. Dr. Oz. DR PHIL?
Celebrities? No power? Ok. I'll bite. My internal analogizer has
them as variations on the same concept. I'm not being
argumentative, but I'd like to know the distinction better from
your perspective. Might help me clarify mine. "King: kill that
man.
Pundit: That man should be killed." Same result. Man gets
killed. Still not seeing the difference. One is a command, one
takes the "should be" route, which gets in people's heads and
causes them to act for the pundit without even realizing it
themselves. I'm wrong:
"The Constitution explicitly assigns to the president the power
to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces,"
Everything else he does, is on the same level of Oprah Winfrey:
Influence. Influence Congress, etc. Going by Wikipedia: Notice
Influence/Soft Power, which equates to Oprah-Power-Level:
You have convinced me of the distinction between Power and
Influence. It was useful and I thank you.
My internal analogizer NOW has
I don't like using analogies sloppily, so it was helpful - thank
you Ah. Now that's interesting.
You have legally supplied authority, which has power, and then
you have Authority figure, which carries influence. An authority
figure has the shadows of power; a figure being "figurative" -
"seemingly" - "apparently" - a nebulous cloud of "something
powerful" but it is created by the implicit agreements of
others.
as opposed to
a legal authority, which has literal authority, explicit
agreement. Legal. Neat Got it. The position has the power. The
system of law being embedded within the structure of our
nationhood gives it a stability that only an overthrow of the
nation could replace.
It is also temporary (all things come and all things go), but
given that it's multigenerational, it is as close to a permanent
authority granting structure as one could achieve.
