How Power Shapes Our Lives Without Us Noticing
✍️ Radhakrishnan Dutta How do we experience power in our lives ? For the majority of people, power is symbolised in governments, rule of law, administrative mechanism, bureaucracy and so on that shape the national system. In human history, some sort of organisation has always prevailed over our social existence, defining code of living, laws and social rules, positions and responsibilities for the individuals. In ancient social organisation, this structure was replicated in kingship, tribal chieftaincy, priesthood etc., around whom a visible system of rules, responsibilities materialised. Following the enlightenment in Europe in the 18th century, modern political states, gradually, replaced the ancient structure of visible power. Government, modern statecraft, the state system came into light as the new symbols of power to the common person. These apparatuses set regulations, run the system, prescribe what should or should not be done,...