Why electricity is called power

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Electricity is also called 'power', may be because it wants to behave like people in power. It wants people to be attached to it just as a refrigerator is forced to for its smooth survival. But the electricity is by design is controlled by the "switch on and switch off mechanism''. Power has a tendency to fluctuate just as men in power have the tendency to misuse or favor with power.

To stabilize men in power there are mechanism like RTI, court and other legal interventions and the power stabilizes itself through the fuse mechanism, transformer as also the branded stabilizers. But men in power are viewed by people differently. 'Keep safe distance' is one policy and also 'be in contact only if necessary' is the other.

A bulb, fan, or TV are in touch with power but livens up the connection only when needed. Most people prefer to be such. A cell phone or a laptop has slightly more selfish behavior. They get in touch, draw sufficient power and disconnect themselves and act independently and go about their business and rejoin the power center to charge themselves up again. The original source of power helplessly accepts this behavior. After all power is generated and power centers are created only for the benefit of people though the original intention gets diluted and also mutilated in implementation.

Thus while power is inevitable most people handle men in power the way the battery of a camera does while it is charged. It goes off if not charged but blinks continuously while in connection with power in the process of getting charged to display its connection to the power center. People in close contact with men in power also similarly display their connection. But the men in power behave like electric power in one aspect. Objects that need power for either charging or glowing or otherwise to be in action have to approach the power center by the switch on and switch off source. Men in power too want people to take the initiative to be in touch with them and also prefer the medium of a third party to perform the act of switch on and switch off of relations. Electricity may be called power for whatever reason but the aforesaid behavior of people in power perhaps led to the saying that 'A friend in power is a friend lost'.


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