Indoctrination comes from the way power is derived and disseminated. Let us further explore what this means. I will then talk about how to differentiate between negative power and positive power and how we can become 'vigilantes against power abusers'.
Power, to put it in simple modern management terms, is the ability to make things happen or to make other people do things for those who want to make things happen. Power must be made to be visible through legitimation and through the display of the signs and symbols of power.
Power, as exercised in democratic settings can be liberating and transformative, but when exercised in totalitarian settings can be shackling and oppressive.
I believe that we must learn to deconstruct the meaning of power, to analyse how it operates, and to deconstruct its meanings and manifestations so that we may understand what are negative and positive uses of power.
