Power risks shifted from temporal to factual, success and consensus dimensions
Evidence
It shifts from the temporal dimension into questions of factual accuracy, of success and of social consensus. This problem situation gets labelled the ‘tyrant-complex’ and lends itself to traditionally handed-down descriptions. This has always been a danger of too much power, but more recently the danger of ‘too little power’ has also become recognizable. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 751
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Tying to faceless commitments: the institution must be trusted precisely when its selections are not temporally or factually transparent.
Related
- Power-law discrepancies force decisions while truth-logic ones do not. (similarity 0.81)
- Exposing power risks replacing it with worse men, yet concealment is worse (similarity 0.81)
- Legal-technized power shifts doubt from will to information (similarity 0.81)
- Theorizing power requires borrowing general concepts from other domains rather than defining it directly (similarity 0.81)
- Visible centralized power creates the risk of tyrannical misuse. (similarity 0.79)
- Power as a medium emerges only when contingent selection can be negated (similarity 0.79)
- Power systems deploy deference and silence to avoid confronting their own failures (similarity 0.79)
- Increasing decision interdependence reveals intrinsic limits on organizational power (similarity 0.78)
- Power grows only as the freedom of the subjected party also grows. (similarity 0.78)
- Trust requires freedom be transferred from uncontrollable potency to institutionalized personal responsibility. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority
#expands(0.55) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 634