If I make audio-visuals and I want to sell better than my competitors, well! I’ll be fighting with the other studios. In this fight sometimes, we will use nice arenas, like conferences, etc; and some other less noble means, like spying. Which of you, who have worked in Television studios have ever heard of nice things like spoiling the work of others, make the video cassettes disappear, etc? So, around 80% of the time that you spend in many of the TV set-ups is consumed by inner fighting between colleagues. That’s the power game in which you get benefits from the disadvantages of the others. Society needs both. When there is too much of the power game, the whole community suffers.

It easy to understand that prosperity is a result of social and economic organisation. It is, however, important that society also keeps a level of competition. If all the benefits of work are shared, there is no incentive to personal commitment. If one of you works a lot, and everyone else in the team takes the advantage, then, what’s the benefit for that person of the additional amount of fatigue? The person benefits when there’s an authority which praises the one who works more and better. If there’s no possibility of elevation within the group, there will be no motivation of doing better and more work. Everybody would work less and the entire team would suffer. So the power game, within the limits set by the group, is also a good game. If this game oversteps the limits, then it will become destructive. So within the rules of the game, the power dynamics is good; if it oversteps the limits, it will become destructive.

Solidarity and competition must both be present in society in the right balance. There is an acceptable and a negative level. If you move too much towards the power game and self-interest, and too little towards the authority game, the community will suffer. That’s why the community has to re- establish the game of authority and service. This is a continuous dynamics and so you can’t make a fixed plan for it. You must also give some power to the authority and the authority will use that power even for personal interest. That’s why no constitution can establish the rights once and for all. There’s need of a constant process of communication which re-settles the power games according to principles. Therefore, there’s a constant need, on the community level, to communicate with its authority, reminding them that authority originated from the community. If this doesn’t happen continuously, the authority becomes standardised in a power system. This standardisation is not the fault of those who are in power but of the community which didn’t follow the communication process, which didn’t regain it, didn’t continue the "meta-communication" process. And so the relationship naturally has decayed.