Power sloshes in and between us like a liquid. It is neither created nor destroyed; it merely circulates.
One must learn to be comfortable with both wielding power and operating at a deficit of it. In other words, one must master both the master and slave positions. Both relations of power are partners to the same eternal phenomenon.
To have power, one must necessarily deny someone else power at a certain point. Both parties should be comfortable with the arrangement, if temporarily. So long as power continues to circulate and everyone agrees to taste it, as well as rescind it when necessary, social relations may remain stable. It is when power accumulates in a certain place, and those in relation to the powerful are deprived of that power for an indefinite amount of time, when strains begin to develop in the form of cruelty on the part of masters and resent on the part of slaves, both seeds of a future cataclysm in which power is necessarily redistributed by a great expenditure of violent force.
