Power is a liquid, not a solid

An approach to political "human nature" which incorporates data from the na tural sciences ranging from neurophysiology to primatology better captures the free-flowing character of dominance interactions than the categorical a nalyses derived from conventional political science. Even the early theoris t Max Weber appeared to suspect this. There is an intriguing link between d eception by subdominant individuals and self-deception by dominant ones. An imals including humans appear to prefer to be dominant rather than subdomin ant.