Friedrich Nietzche: “It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous”
Janette Watt: “Dear Fred, I know from experience, mine and that of people I care about, that what you say can be true. Yet, I don’t believe that it HAS to be this way nor do I believe it is the BEST way for power to grow.
I know, from experience, that growth and learning also occurs where their is love and peace. And, I say to you, that what we learn through love and peace makes us more powerful than what we learn from being wounded. Through love and peace power grows not just individually but collectively — for you see, where there is love and peace two or more are gathered together — and logically, where there is more than one, you have more power. Together, we will make it so. What do you say, Fred. Wounding or love and peace?
And something else Fred, it seems to me that power growing out of wounds too often leaves people to deal with what faces them from a source of pain, a pain that never completely leaves them — and they often feel alone in dealing with what they face or in their pain. Power growing out of love and peace leaves people to deal with what faces them from a source of wholeness, wholeness that never completely leaves them — and they are rarely alone in dealing with what faces them, and they celebrate together wholeness.
It seems to me Fred, that a person who is whole operates from a greater place of power than one who is wounded and dealing with pain. It also seems to me Fred, that a person who has the support of others, who can draw upon their ideas and other sources of power as needed operates from a greater place of power than one who is individually powerful.
So while I agree with you, that those of us who have been wounded, can take what has wounded us and turn it into power, well Fred — I would rather my children and yours learned through love and peace. I want this Fred for my grandchildren and your grandchildren, for my great grandchildren and your great grandchildren, for seven generations and beyond in my family and your family, Fred. Power that grows from love and peace is EVEN MORE tremendous!
What do you think Fred?”
Janette Watt is a proud-brazen-instigator, a value-driven political thinker, a social critic and an aspiring dissident writer. Her writing and her presentations are informed by her life experiences as an activist lawyer, an activist educator and active member of the human race. She is the owner/president of Watt Communications. Read other posts by Janette Watt.
