How can powering the process happen without power in the process? While on the matter, maybe we should process the use of power as part of processing whose power it is and should be.

When needing to hold on to power, supporting and enabling processes seem far from doubt and always within reach. If only that applied to processes needed to distribute power.

It is difficult to process how processes that should ensure power lies with the people, end up getting used to take power away from the people, and to the point that where issues like failure to provide the people with power arise, the people are left trying to process demands to “trust the process” that have only been followed by them being without power they need, as well as lacking the power to demand or effect better.

Behaviours by those whom the process has given power suggest either a failure to process the effect of the unreliability and/or unavailability of power on those who gave them power, or holding great confidence in processes that make irrelevant the emotions of those with whom power should rest.

So, while those who should be the source of power desperately seek ways to keep themselves safe and enabled in the absence of power needed for daily needs, those who hold power, buoyed by repeated noises of “power to your elbow”, engage a different type of power – horsepower – in ways and to extents that must be diverting resources and attention from getting power to the once powerful whose powerlessness is now confirmed by the unavailability of power.

Basically, having gained power by assuring power-givers they could be trusted with the processes, the powerful are being revealed as unable, or unaware of how, to power the process they asked to be trusted with, and even demand trust in, by inability to execute simple processes that would ensure power is processed for the powerless.

What hope when the powerful look powerless? What hope when the powerlessness to effect change meets with powerlessness that takes away from quality of life?

© Othame Kabia