Super-Empowered Individual
"A super empowered individual, in my view, is autonomously capable of creating a cascading event that grand strategist Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett has termed a 'system perturbation'; a disruption of system function and invalidation of existing rule sets to at least the national but more likely the global scale. The key requirements to become 'superempowered' are comprehension of a complex system’s connectivity and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a willingness to use it." -- Mark Safranski, ZenPundit.Super-empowerment has been defined variously as superior economic empowerment, technological empowerment, materiel empowerment, intellectual empowerment, 'connectivity' empowerment, etc., in which the level of empowerment so far exceeds the norm for any given society or system, individuals possessing the included powers are capable of causing significant and generally irreparable alterations to the environment (system or society.) Super-empowered individuals possess a greater ability to affect systems than the vast majority of others living within those systems.
See: Super-Empowered Angry Men
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