power vaccum

When something becomes void of structure and leadership.

i.e. the thing that happened to alternative rock after Kurt Cobain's death.

Kurt Cobain's death created a power vaccum so big that we ended up with bands like Creed. Yuck.

by Ben Recob December 24, 2023

Power Vacuum

The sociopolitical theory that states that a lack of a central governing body will be immediately replaced, like air rushing into a vacuum.

The Venus Project is insidiously fictitious, not only because it believes technologies exist that do not but it would also create a power vacuum thus making it impossible for a society to exist without a governing body. Would you rather that interim governing body exist as a structured democratic entity or as a militant warlord risen to power due to controlling a vital commodity?

by Solypsys March 19, 2009