Those who have been following me for years know that one of the Human Movements I detected in 2015 was what I called ‘Isonomic Power’. There was back then a consistent movement to renounce power and the status quo that represents it. It was the product, I understood at that moment, of a tiredness in the state of being in constant competition, in an endless escalation, in a power game which satisfied little and demanded a lot.
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It was the time when more and more executives took sabbaticals and were admired by legions of young people; beauty brands promised products that would make anyone become whoever they wanted to be. Slowing down, rethinking life, men wearing sneakers as work shoes and women leaving their high heels at home. “Less is More” was the slogan that summed up this time when we deconstructed rigid models which we no longer wanted.
I understood, at the time, that there was a desire for a greater freedom of being. Although perhaps few have had the insight that power and freedom cannot coexist, most longed to live without so many restrictions and molds that power demands. The freedom the soul was dreaming of would bring spontaneity, lightness and the exploration of less known and unmapped routes. I called this Power To. It was not about renouncing power. It was about using the capacity that power contains for liberation and saying no to remaining within a status quo that restrains and restricts.
That was ten years ago. What happened?
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