Strength is not in the foundation or constitution of a thing, but in the outcome. Strength is not how we solve our problems or face our challenges, it is the lesson we come to know for resolving them nonetheless. Strength is not what gets deployed in how you fight a discrepancy, a malady or a threat, strength is having confronted it and fought it. It is never experienced in tools or weapons but from the scarring their causation effects. It is not physically growing one’s muscles but developing one’s muscle memory. It is not some thing which holds the house up throughout long years of changing climates, strength instead is the house which survived the lifetime of storms and upheaval. Strength is not Samson’s metro-sexual makeover, it is the metal of a history open to scrutiny. Strength is not the force of an act, but its refrain. Strength is not the ability for inflicting or sustaining lethal damages regardless of warcry, strength is knowing every life might harmlessly be more important than your own nonetheless.
Whether it’s the dehumanizing 3/5 of a person conceptualized by the founders, or the dehumanized human capital of their capitalist descendants or the dehumanized fetuses of their populist descendants, strength cannot be observed in deciding who must warrant lesser resources or opportunities than what conveniences or comforts, as what gets convenienced or comforted is nothing but weakness. Strength is maintaining principles and convictions free from any hint of inconsistency or contradictions. Real strength is doing so while you yourself are not the beneficiary of those principles or convictions.
Likewise, maintenance in regards to anything one might conceive is not actually about fixing things, but about maintaining them so that they never need be fixed. Strength is the destruction of nothing, especially in self-defense.
If resources and opportunities might only possibly arrive from strength, then how strong must those persons be, who continue to survive without.