In class we read a piece about power, domination, and discipline. Domination and discipline are both intertwined with power. Dominance and discipline are needed to obtain power. In short, both domination and discipline play a very important role in the attainment of power. First let us briefly go over what power is. Power is being able to impose one’s own will on another. This is when someone can make another do something without the other wanting to do it. Power can only be attained if domination and discipline are present. Domination happens when you have found someone, or a staff, who will obey one’s commands or orders. However, when you only have domination, one may or may not obey you. In order to have power one must be disciplined to let oneself be dominated. Power is only complete when one has become disciplined to obey you in an unthinkable manner.
Domination and discipline play two very important roles in power. They are essential to having power. First, domination is what gives power the mere opportunity to exist. Domination is what gives power the group of people, or staff, which may or may not obey. This staff may not seem very important, but it is. If the group that domination brings did not exist then power would not even have an opportunity of existing to the person who is trying to obtain power. Now the person who is trying to obtain power has a staff to give orders to but the person only has this staff because of the dominance that he or she has over that staff. One thing that one must remember is that domination only exists when one is giving orders. One can only give orders if a staff exists to give orders to. Domination’s role is that it brings the staff to the person trying to obtain power. This is an important role because one cannot impose one’s will one another if one does not have someone to impose their will on. Discipline is the major role of obtaining power. Power is only complete once discipline has been attained. Dominance brings the group of people that one gives order to and imposes one’s will onto; however, discipline is what makes the staff follow one’s orders without thinking. Power has only been attained once people follow orders without thinking.
Once dominance over a staff and discipline to obey one’s orders are in place, then power exists. A good example of what obtaining power looks like is the social relationship between the president and the military. The president is the head of the military. The military is the staff that dominance has created and the president is the one giving orders to the staff that he has dominance over. The military staff is disciplined to obey the orders of the president. If the president were to say, ‘We are going to war,” the military will obey him and go to war. They do not think about doing it, they just do it. They unthinkably obey the president’s orders. Therefore, one can say that the president has complete power over the military. The social relationship between the military and the president contains everything that needs to be attained in order to have power. Their relationship has dominance because the president is dominant over the military staff and it has discipline because the military unthinkably obeys the president’s orders. As I explained before, once all this comes into play, power is obtained.
Domination and discipline play two very important roles in power. They are essential to having power. First, domination is what gives power the mere opportunity to exist. Domination is what gives power the group of people, or staff, which may or may not obey. This staff may not seem very important, but it is. If the group that domination brings did not exist then power would not even have an opportunity of existing to the person who is trying to obtain power. Now the person who is trying to obtain power has a staff to give orders to but the person only has this staff because of the dominance that he or she has over that staff. One thing that one must remember is that domination only exists when one is giving orders. One can only give orders if a staff exists to give orders to. Domination’s role is that it brings the staff to the person trying to obtain power. This is an important role because one cannot impose one’s will one another if one does not have someone to impose their will on. Discipline is the major role of obtaining power. Power is only complete once discipline has been attained. Dominance brings the group of people that one gives order to and imposes one’s will onto; however, discipline is what makes the staff follow one’s orders without thinking. Power has only been attained once people follow orders without thinking.
Once dominance over a staff and discipline to obey one’s orders are in place, then power exists. A good example of what obtaining power looks like is the social relationship between the president and the military. The president is the head of the military. The military is the staff that dominance has created and the president is the one giving orders to the staff that he has dominance over. The military staff is disciplined to obey the orders of the president. If the president were to say, ‘We are going to war,” the military will obey him and go to war. They do not think about doing it, they just do it. They unthinkably obey the president’s orders. Therefore, one can say that the president has complete power over the military. The social relationship between the military and the president contains everything that needs to be attained in order to have power. Their relationship has dominance because the president is dominant over the military staff and it has discipline because the military unthinkably obeys the president’s orders. As I explained before, once all this comes into play, power is obtained.