Professor Dan Voiculescu launches a public debate for the need for power.
"Why does power or even the illusion of power change us, people?" is the question I am asking psychologists, sociologists, scientists and even foreign ambassadors to answer.
Professor Dan Voiculescu writes on his personal blog about the people’s will to have power and the way in which they use it when they get into a position of power.
POWER RELATIONS IN ROMANIA
First, the power must be defined what it means to have power? I started from the fact that those who have power have a certain type of behavior. And I took a few examples: a student if he studies well, but offends the math teacher gets a lower mark than he deserves because "the teacher wants it."
Why would he want to punish him with a lower grade in mathematics, when he could, if he wanted, to decrease his grade for behavior , to cancel his scholarship for a month, etc? The answer is that the student depends on the teacher.
I have examined the relation judge - defendant and, thus I discovered that the judge can send the defendant to prison for an additional 2-3 years because he had a defiant attitude and because the evidence in the file did not require such a solution.
SOURCE : Dan Voiculescu’s blog
The situations described by Professor Dan Voiculescu can be applied for the relations prosecutor – suspect, ANAF official - taxpayers or physician - patient. In the latter case, however, there is a difference: a patient brought in for emergency surgery does not matter how he behaves. He will be operated on !
THE POWER OF "YOU DEPEND ON ME "
In all the cases there appears: "I want it so!" and " you depend on me to solve your problem." If in an ideal world where we could solve this ugly " you depend on me," what about "because I want it so"? Some time ago we held a debate entitled "the anatomy of envy". Now I propose another "power syndrome", with the central question: "What changes us, people, power or even the illusion of power?"
SOURCE : Dan Voiculescu’s blog
Professor Dan Voiculescu invites for the public debate psychologists, scientists, citizens, young, old, men and women. Moreover, we also need the opinion of ambassadors, to find out whether the countries they are representing in the societies they come from, the relation to power is the same as in Romania.