In one sentence you consider me "powerful" the next "powerlessness", my experience "not relevant" and in the next it's defining me. In short the definition of inconsistency.

The consistent version is that power is always relative (hence also contextual) and lived experience is formatting. Everyone develops or submits to a working model world view to try and make some sense of our environment. Seeing humans predominantly as apes (short term actors, sentient, so seeing & feeling is believing beings mostly incapable of understanding long term and abstract consequences) gives me at least a pretty accurate model.

It's a breath of fresh air to sometimes find the occasional individual who is capable in rational logic like https://dothemath.ucsd.edu

But our apes world actively prevents these people from leading them and banishes them to the fringes of soceity. To the powerlessness of academia or worse. So instead of living in a world of plenty, governed by the values of https://www.ecogood.org using systemic consensus https://sk-prinzip.eu mankind is evolving in the other direction. In to, as Yuval Hariri already has described, a mostly superflous majority in a world worked by robots, brained by AI serving a tiny elite. In short become a liability. Two very different versions of paradise. One version far more likely to happen than the other.