How to change the world

Power is a tricky subject to analyze and must be one of the most mystical parts of modern philosophy. How does one acquire power and how does one keep it? Also does having more power mean having more freedom? Certainly every five years with elect a new government, but do we have enough knowledge to judge the right person for the job? Then there are the mega rich, who execute a huge amount of power on the way society is run, without being elected to office. No doubt more money means more freedom, with large amounts of money people can choose pretty much anything to do in their spare time. People at the bottom, those with very low paid work are told exactly what they are meant to be doing so have very little freedom within their work environment, but can forget about work whilst at home. Supposedly those with greater responsibility have a harder time at work because they have all the power to change.

It is bizarre to me that those who have achieved power are able so easily to keep it, there are rich people whose money has been passed down for generation after generation, ancient money still powering the world. But what can we do, i would imagine that every person wants a classless society, apart from those already benefiting from the capitalist's method. Would it take a major revolution to put into power people willing to make the changes? It seems to me obvious that major change is required, but to challenge the powers that be takes a huge amount of human will and support. The sort of support must always be non-violent, in Russia it was military action but that can no longer be the way. My own belief is that a new religion may open the doors to power, but again we must learn from Christianity and Islam, that the authorities do not use the new morals to reinforce their own strength.

To look at power another way is to talk of skills and knowledge, Plato talked of the philosopher king and in his rhetoric Aristotle talked of authorities of knowledge and judgement. In my world it would start with ethics, so that children learn about free will from an early age, that the knowledge of positive choices is taught in school. To have the freedom of mind to make one's own way in the pursuit of achievement, to understand the role or duty to one's peers, to put other's needs before their own and to work on producing an equal society. Religion can be a place where children are taught to believe in the perfect society, but much of the early education has been lost with the secular world, maybe because it is hard to allow a child to make their own religious choices. I do believe society will eventually make the change to equality, but to get the right people into power will take more than a general election and rhetoric and it will take more than belief, it will take a huge amount of zealous faith.