Walk. Walk. Walk.

Crawling, stumbling, falling (multiple times), and walking with balance; all are steps to learning how to walk as a child. Also, all are steps to make an equal dosage of power and love. Although power and love are often found where only one is conveyed, a successful world, or a success in a certain situation, can be solved with a compromise of power and love.
Kahane describes this dilemma of the struggle for compromise between power and love in chapters 3-6, with the description of falling, stumbling, and walking. In his sense, this “dilemma” refers to “a challenge that consists of two propositions, each of which, if pursued too aggressively, will disturb the health of the whole and therefore needs to be balanced by the other” (54). This exactly explains the necessary compromise needed between power and love. If one is without the other, both will fall into peril.
Kahane then continues to use an example of walking, and relateds it to the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Rather, I like to think of this balancing act, in relation to learning how to walk as a child. When you’re younger and learning how to walk, you need to take small steps, eventually learn how to crawl—slowly inching your way around; you then learn how to walk, slowly, falling and stumbling often. However, in this stumbling and falling, you learn that you cannot walk on only one leg, “just as we can’t address our toughest social challenges only with power or only with love. But walking on two legs does not mean either moving them both at the same time or always being stably balanced” (54).
If an equal balance of power and love can be reached in today’s world, we would all be left in a better position—working with one another and living better, as well as healthier lives, in relation to today’s food system. This world can only continue on and succeed if we find a common ground, wher both power and love can walk around equally. Walking on our own two feet, as in working with power and love, “each balancing out and bringing in and building up the other. When we walk, we move forward, learning as we go” (103).