The Will to Power, aligniment of PRRRA, and what it all means for you

Giving real power back to the people!

You watch politicians make grand promises every election, then forget them once they’re in power – that happens because power itself has become the prize.
You feel ignored while lobbyists and big interests get listened to – because the current system rewards chasing influence instead of solving your daily problems.
You want politics to feel honest again – we remove power as the main incentive so politicians are judged only on whether they actually deliver the things you care about.

Understanding “The Will to Power” is the key to why British politics feels broken.

Life itself evolved through a natural balance of Power, Reward, Risk, Responsibility and Accountability (PRRRA). Humans have warped that balance in politics. The Process Party wants to realign it so that power is no longer something politicians chase for its own sake – it becomes the tool that serves you and your family instead.

The Will to Power

To understand the real benefits of power, we must understand the different ways you can use it. The Bolivian Chicken story is about what inspired the understanding of the two main types of Power: internal, and external, and why we should only focus on growing one and minimising the other.

The Bolivian Chicken

The year was 2008, Bolivia, in a village unknown. I was making sandals out of car tyres as I camped outside an abandoned hospital (long story).

As I was busy cutting the tyres into sandals, I looked up and saw a female chicken, dishevelled, scrawny, skittish, with a large bald spot on the back of her neck. I questioned the reasoning & put it down to just being unhealthy.

Head down, I continued working until I heard frantic noises coming from the hen who, upon looking up, was frantically pecking some food it found which I found strange until I looked up again after a Kerfuffle and saw a male chicken had jumped on the hens back and was frantically pecking the back of her neck. All that I could think was "Why couldn't he just find his own food?"

This made me realise, it's harder to build your internal strength than to manipulate external power from others so life will naturally seek to reduce risks through zero sum gain than face the risk of growing itself and learning from the risk received, if given the opportunity.

Lessons for growth

The Process Party is focused on aligning markets, policies, and social cohesion to encourage internal power development and discourage external power manipulation for the betterment of standards of living from the ground up with individuals in society understanding the benefits to them of self growth.

Understanding Power Types

Exploring Internal and External Power

In all realms of life (personal, political, and organisational development), understanding the different types of power is pivotal. As explored by The Process Party, power isn't merely a concept; it embodies a dual nature that profoundly impacts relationships and decision-making processes.

Internal power is centred around self-improvement and personal growth. It is the intrinsic motivation that propels individuals to strive for betterment, fostering resilience and confidence. This personal empowerment is critical for leaders who aim to inspire others and make Governance to not only be effective, but ever evolving.

Conversely, external power manipulation hinges upon the influence exerted by others. This can manifest in various forms, such as persuasion, authority, or even coercion. Recognising how external influences operate allows individuals to navigate complex power dynamics effectively. Understanding these two forms of power is essential for both individuals and organisations seeking to optimise their interactions and achieve sustainable growth. By appreciating the balance between internal self-empowerment and external influence, one can create a more harmonious and effective environment in both personal and societal settings.

Power distribution in differing governance structures

Now that we understand the two types of Power, we can see how this logic applies to governance and what makes Democracy the most efficient type of governance but how representational democracy still leaves inefficiencies that lead to bottlenecks where power can be accumulated for nefarious purposes

In the above graphs, we see how power is distributed throughout a society. In order to fully understand these graphs, we need to clarify several considerations as follows:

The population across the X axis represents all the individuals in a society, so every increment across the line is one person in that society
The Y axis represents the power for each of those individuals in the society, so the higher up the Y axis the peak of that individual's power sits, the more power they have within that society
The gradient of the green colour represents the concentration of power within the distribution curve of the people's power which can be translated to Standards of living

Now that we understand this, we can analyse each graph:

Kingdom

In a Kingdom, concentration of Power is held (mostly through violence and oppression) by the King and the few people around him who helped him control power. It is often riddled with power struggles as everyone vies for more power because the system is structured to self preserve and to prize Power above everything else, leading to chaos, or as Polybius liked to refer to it; Anacyclosis. (click here for an explainer video on Polybius's thesis on the cycles of governance which lead to revolution or chaos).

Republic

As Kingdoms reign, there are moments in time when all the necessary factors align and logic outshines the chaos of greed under Kingdoms and a few with Power come to an agreement where they share control by electing the head of State in a mutually beneficial situation but still have no consideration for the masses who do the work that drives their wealth.

This increases the standard of living for a larger cohort within society but is still riddled with inequality which puts an unfair filter on opportunity and therefore meritocracy. So humanity doesn't evolve as quickly whilst the pursuit of Power is still an incentive to govern which creates inefficiencies within a once clean system that leads to chaos again as prescribed by Polybius. To note, Communism will drift between Republic and Kingdom structures of Power distribution as Power is still an incentive to govern and this always leads to anacyclosis.

Representational Democracy

As societies grow from the increased distribution of Power being devolved to larger cohorts of people within society, stability is sustained for longer as economic and social growth becomes the more important focus.

This stability can again create times in history where those with Power are able to see the benefit of further Power distribution as it is the best way to increase wealth and growth for themselves by feeding off the extra productivity of the individuals. They then feel comfortable implementing democratic changes as the risk to their power accumulation is perceived not to have sufficient effect to cause them to lose it.

To note: Power distribution, Democracy, and Freedom ONLY evolve from peace, never force because violence increases the risk to the incumbent Power holders of death and breaking their bloodline, the true root cause of life.

Democracy holds more process controls that attempt to better align PRRRA (even without knowing it) so drives a fairer society driven more by meritocracy. Yet the system still has bottlenecks of Power, because those in Power need to ensure they can still draw the Power back in when risks to their control increase. Unfortunately, with the increase input from society into the Democratic Power structure (without recognising that Power must be kept divided), some stakeholders may hold other allegiances or seek further Power for their own agenda not based on the greater good but their short term interests. This increases the chance for corruption and manipulation of Power and so Anacyclosis takes effect as the primary aim becomes Power again.

Direct Democracy

Luckily, what those holding Power don't realise is that, as the distribution of Power is spread and meritocracy is used to bring ideas to light, more individuals can individually focus on issues and come up with solutions, even for the governing system itself!

That day is now and we have the solution! All it took was an overthinking process analyst to take the leading ideas from the growth environment of private markets and apply it for the greater good.

So why is aligning Power so important

As we can see from the above journey of evolution of governance, Power is the fundamental root cause for evolution of the human race and if you also applied this to all life in general, you would find this to be true: the more individual power, the greater the collective power, the greater the individual power.

This is why we need to start understanding about Power in measurable terms and identifying where it is concentrated and so at risk for manipulation.

Now you understand the types and importance of the division of Power, please click on the below button to read more about how we use these guiding principles to fix the issue.

How do we fix our Democracy?

Understanding PRRRA

Nature has always been driven by PRRRA but as humans have evolved to control their environment, we have warped these factors in a way that's detrimental to the society they should be serving. Below is a logically ordered story of how these factors drive evolution

The best way to explain PRRRA is by looking at how life evolves.

Power

Imagine a simple set of RNA in the primordial soup at the start of life.

First the cell needed the perfect conditions to form, in that environment it had resources to consume. It needed to have the Power to take those resources (food) so prolonging its existence. This is why everything starts with Power.

Reward

Those resources were the reward for evolving power so life could take as much as needed to survive and thrive

Risk

However, life is never simple and if the environment became detrimental to life, so came the Risk of death. For example, if a cell is floating about in the primordial soup, they could end up in an area that is detrimental to life. Without an ozone layer, life couldn't survive the harsh UV rays so if it floated into the sun's rays, it Would perish

Responsibility

As life evolved, those who developed abilities to control their movement, then took the responsibility to reduce risk and increase their power by effectively seeking out reward by controlling their physical location.

Accountability

Finally, as the cells became more prosperous and replicated, the natural laws of competition meant that they were not a spec in a vast space but huddled close together. This increased competition and variation meant that some sought them as a resource. Though this is just another risk, it is developed by life and so is the first sense of "accountability" as they couldn't just blindly seek resources because those resources may turnout to be bigger than them and so they would became the food! So they had to develop ways to distinguish between food or foe. This catalysed evolution further to grow and evolve in a competitive environment

As this competition eventually drove evolution of life to become multi cell organisms and beyond.

Eventually, life found itself in an environment where grouping together increased the individuals power (the sum being greater than it's constituent parts).

As "herd" animals, being devoid of risk and simplistic zero sum gain (what we now call psychopaths) would become detrimental to the larger group to such an extent that accountability takes it's modern form; the risk of hurting others in excess of life's requirements (also known as greed) being aligned to the risk of retribution from the greater assembly that supports the life that took in excess,

Of course life has always been seeking to reduce risk as it is, in the short term, more reward for less effort (Power). As life is not naturally altruistic (because if the environment suddenly changed, life would need to devolve back to primitive steps in order to ensure survival, NOT because it is productive but because it's a survival strategy!)

Life has had to develop accountability in order to ensure a more stable environment that fuels further evolution of life!

So though life CAN survive without accountability (hence how it can be manipulated to reduce risk - a natural driver of life) it is MORE EFFICIENT for evolution of life to live with it!