What is honest power?

Who do you boss around? Who bosses you? Why?

Honest power describes the way in which some are born with a level of charisma, aka dominance, that compels them to put themselves above others, and compels more malleable, aka submissive others to obey. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe it’s learned, but it is real. It is a system that is eons older than tawdry modern ideas like democracy or communism, and it constantly works to undermine those systems because it is in our blood. We wish to look away from the truth of these dynamics because of the horrible events of the 20th century spawned by vast and insane Nietzschean over-reaching, but they are real and must be discussed openly.

 

I am most interested in romantic/sexual power, in particular female romantic/sexual domination of the male, but that subject can only be understood in the context of general human power relations. In turn sexual power dynamics help us understand general human power relations because sexual power is small scale and uninhibited and is therefore closer to the state of nature than the complex artificial, socially moderated power of politics.