Power, Organism, Society

The bearer of Schopenhauer's Will to Live is uncertain--in some passages, it is a ubiquitous principle, according to others, it is the reproductive drive of a particular species, while in many expositions, he attributes it to individuals, even while denying their reality.  Nietzche's Will to Power is similarly indeterminate, but in most contexts, its bearer is an individual that is independent of other such subjects, which sets the stage for conflicts that are resolved by one overpowering another. He thus hardly considers that in an Organism, the parts mutually empower each other, so, insofar as a society is an Organism, the members of which are parts, Empowerment, not Overpowering, is the fundamental expression of Power.  From that perspective, societies that are constituted by relations of subjugation are expressions of systemic weakness.