Strength is knowing that the power to change things is in your own hands. Nothing, no one, can be untouchable. Everything can be studied in some way, and eventually altered in some way. Strength is recognizing one's own capabilities, as in the most fundamental magical notion that can be gleaned from the previous card -- the idea that singular intentions can accomplish things. But the peculiar curve of the arch that upholds the archetype of Strength is a sense of dissatisfaction with the very feeling of dissatisfaction itself: the first ever inventor was, by definition, strong. Instead of looking for the reasons why the materials and tools at your disposal do not fit the problem at hand, look deeper into the problem on a material basis. Can you invent a solution? Even if you cannot, the fact that you tried will allow you to understand how to succeed. You, yes you. Even if your self-worth has been so blasted by this patriarchal world that you can't possibly imagine how you will even make it out the door this morning -- you can do something differently, independently, and ultimately change the world just because you kept at it today. And you won't wake up tomorrow repeating those same, potentially world-changing things over again; instead, you'll be given a different set of materials and tools with which to simply invent a future. And knowing this and taking this entire practice into one's life is freedom. But too often our limited human worldviews leave that kind of Big Thinking in the Moment to the rest of the herd, and this is why the idea of democracy is still just an idea. As far as individualized resistance goes, we haven't displayed much advanced behavior. And so the Strength card shows the true future of resistance: incorporation. Embodiment. Instead of idealizing a solution which does not involve us, we materialistically resist the failures the world presents us with, knowing that nothing can be absolutely subjective. We don't fear sharing languages, sharing experiences. We only fear what makes the cancel culture so strong: the idea that ideas and sensations are the ultimate reality -- that one's own experiences are absolutely subjective and ultimately meaningless, and that language is incapable of bridging the looming gaps between minds, cultures, and planets. These kinds of ideas, that fuel nationalism, can be seen as ultimately incestuous -- originating from the idea of the weakness of the individual, the powerlessness of individual research, and the need for experts who are authoritative voices to answer fundamental questions. Of course, in such a subjectivist worldview, it would be better if those voices were from our own cultures, and indeed best if it were from our own families. The pure subjectivist, the true enemy of society, can really only ever idealize what is already materialized, not submit it to further work; the two hands, the two eyes, mean nothing. The idea of the soul was invented so early on in human development precisely because this pattern of genetic activations wove itself into the oceanic fabric of the genes so early on.
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