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This topic endlessly fascinates me and I've been preoccupied by the strange inversion of the left and right in academics circles sine college. A decade later — what do I think? Yes, of course, there is some truth in the idea that all power is violent. But power is also so much more than violence and the left (lost in the intellectual baroque) and the right (lost in a sense of proving value) often liked to ignore that power was so much more than violence. The tiger in the wild, competition in sports, the writing of laws, etc — to take violence as their primary vehicle is to miss a great deal. The power of the tiger invokes beauty, completion invokes fun, laws aim at higher ideals, etc.
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