Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goeth: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.

-- Schindler's List (1993)

If you liked "The Gift" from Marcel Mauss, you will love "The Gift" from Lewis Hyde.

Here's some of what he says:
"A gift that has the power to change us awakens a part of the soul. But we cannot receive the gift until we can meet it as an equal."

"If our lives are gifts to begin with, however, in some sense they are not "ours" even when we become adults. Or perhaps they are, but only until such time as we find a way to bestow them."

This is why in Spanish we make a difference between "invitar" (to invite) and "convidar" (to "co-invite", i.e. to invite someone to something expecting to get an invitation back). Used mainly when you're going out and buying drinks. The power dynamics behind each activity is very different.

"to give is to be able, to receieve without reciprocation is understanding the gift."
-The Yogi Spuzum

"We are forgetting how to give gifts. Violation of the exchange principle has something non-sensical and implausible about it; here and there children eye the giver suspiciously, as if the gift were merely a trick to sell them brushes or soap....Even private giving of presents has degenerated to a social function excercised with rational bad grace, careful adherence to the prescribed budget, sceptical appraisal of the other, and the least possible effort."

Adorno, 'Articles May Not be Exchanged', Minima Moralia

A snapshot of one of the most insightful of Adorno's fragments, I give it to my students to read each year around this time, before Christmas, hoping it might have some effect. Hopeless hope...

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