MADDMAN wrote:
yeah..... you are right, i need to lay off of the weed, but my point is.... like a car crash draws enough attention to stop up an entire highway just for people to drive by slow lookin' to see what happened , they tune in totally, and if someone were to have a fight or have argument it would most likely draw the attention of many others, and it is also noted as a law in robert greene's 48 laws of power. it's the old biggie and pac scenario. the power of controversy. my fault about the spelling too, i went from learning english to a totally different language when i was 11 and living in a different country so i tend to mispell alot of things in english....
Ohh okay I get it now. I never studied robert greene's 48 laws of power but I'd say that if things happen without us being involved in it, like people having an argument, which has no correlation to us, than we are only an observer and as an observer it is only our free will to give any attention to what is happening, therefore if we choose not to be attracted by the argument, then it has no "power" over us.
The car crash situation however is different imo. The very definition of accident excludes us from having any significant impact on the events taking place. Accident is by its nature unexpected and
unintended. Therefore if it occurs we are no longer an observer, but a participant (direct or indirect). Of course we don't even have to be in a car that's wrecked, to participate in this external event, we can simply be slowed down because of what happened as you said. And this occurence affects our sphere of being.
As for the whole factor of power in all this. My professor, trying to explain what power is gave us this definition: Power is being in a possesion of something others desire to have.