Great Circle

Back onto the ideas stemming from Dependency theory. (Please don’t yawn so LOUD!)
So from where does Person A gain this power to control and manipulate Person B? Simply from Person B’s dependence on Person A, who might be providing one of the following:

Physical strength or protection from physical strength (sometimes their own - ie., “be [...]

I was talking about the way water looks different on clear days and cloudy days. I told my six year old son  (above) that water looked better on nice blue-sky days. He replied that all days are nice days - “the blue days and the silver days.”
“Silver days? What’s a silver day?” I asked.
“A [...]

So picking up from where we left off, I have an intense hatred of people using positions of authority to wield power over others.
“Aren’t authority and power the same thing?”
So glad you asked that question. For our purposes, authority means “A position of leadership that comes from either natural or organisational relationship” (e.g. parent, [...]

According to the mighty Wikipedia, “Dependency theory is the body of social science theories by various intellectuals, both from the Third World and the First World, that create a worldview which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy.”
Fascinating? Mmm. Probably not…
But … [...]