Power is only real, if the entity which wields the power is threatened by death. As a corollary, an entity that is faces no threat to its existence, is an entity with no real power. As a second corollary, power exist in a Morbius spiral-liked reversibility, where its death perpetuates its existence.
So the Singapore army, which group holds true power? The generals and his coterie of officers? The warrants, the potential conduit between officer-dom and the masses? Or, could it be, incredibly, the blur mass of low-ranked foot soldiers?
Of course you know where this postulation is heading.
Indeed, our featureless blob of low-ranked personnel wields real power, and in fact, they are probably the only entity in the army that holds any true power. Officers and warrants alike instead hold a vacuous power.
Why?
Because, unlike the enlistees and specialists these 2 entities do not face any real threats to their existence. Death in the army, figuratively speaking, comes in the form of a court martial or charge. It is only in the form of official punishment that power held by any of the entities can be destroyed. Yet, as one sergeant puts it, to charge an officer, you need to ascend through so many corridors of power that no one actually does it. So while officers can technically be charged, they face no tangible fear. In short, they face a simulated threat, not a real one.
So what does it signify?
Nothing less than the fact that the power officers hold are but a simulation. That directives and rules (that affect the officers) exist solely to serve as simulated threats to the officer corps: Simulated threats to perpetuate the officer corps' simulated power. That, in fact, without these directives, the officer corps would hold no power at all.
So how does this cause true power to fall into the amorphous mass of enlistees and specialists?
Because unlike the officer corps, directives serve as real threats to the lowly-ranked soldier. It is ludicrously easy to charge a CPL, but woe betid the person who submits a charge report on an officer. Real power only exists if it faces real death. From here, it is only a logical deduction: True power lies in the enlistees and specialists.
And finally, power in the enlistees and specialists will always perpetuate itself. Every time 1 man falls into Gehenna, power reincarnates itself amongst the masses.
So the Singapore army, which group holds true power? The generals and his coterie of officers? The warrants, the potential conduit between officer-dom and the masses? Or, could it be, incredibly, the blur mass of low-ranked foot soldiers?
Of course you know where this postulation is heading.
Indeed, our featureless blob of low-ranked personnel wields real power, and in fact, they are probably the only entity in the army that holds any true power. Officers and warrants alike instead hold a vacuous power.
Why?
Because, unlike the enlistees and specialists these 2 entities do not face any real threats to their existence. Death in the army, figuratively speaking, comes in the form of a court martial or charge. It is only in the form of official punishment that power held by any of the entities can be destroyed. Yet, as one sergeant puts it, to charge an officer, you need to ascend through so many corridors of power that no one actually does it. So while officers can technically be charged, they face no tangible fear. In short, they face a simulated threat, not a real one.
So what does it signify?
Nothing less than the fact that the power officers hold are but a simulation. That directives and rules (that affect the officers) exist solely to serve as simulated threats to the officer corps: Simulated threats to perpetuate the officer corps' simulated power. That, in fact, without these directives, the officer corps would hold no power at all.
So how does this cause true power to fall into the amorphous mass of enlistees and specialists?
Because unlike the officer corps, directives serve as real threats to the lowly-ranked soldier. It is ludicrously easy to charge a CPL, but woe betid the person who submits a charge report on an officer. Real power only exists if it faces real death. From here, it is only a logical deduction: True power lies in the enlistees and specialists.
And finally, power in the enlistees and specialists will always perpetuate itself. Every time 1 man falls into Gehenna, power reincarnates itself amongst the masses.
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