Cratology

= the study of power

Description

Peter Limberg:

"Power is a language one can speak and hear, and it is not explicitly taught in school but rather concealed. The powerful do not want you to be power literate, because they do not want you to know they have power.

Rule #1 among the power-savvy: maintaining power requires concealing it.

Being knowledgeable about politics does not translate into having good power literacy. In fact, many who are interested in politics lack it. Politics is “the exercise of power,” and having theories, ideologies, or even a science about power’s exercise is different from actually being able to spot it, understand it, and map it in one’s lived environment."

I’ve seen the phrase “cratology” before in obscure academic papers, but it does not seem to be widely used. It comes from the Greek word “kratos,” meaning power, and the suffix “-ology,” meaning study. The study of power."

(https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/applied-cratology-understanding-power)