Faced by the seemingly impregnable forces of multi-national capital, imperialist structures and their slavish spokespersons, overloaded by impotent debate, people must have forums and space for dissent and positive resistance.
Here it has the tone of exasperation, of despair, of abject and impotent complaint that people can be so stupid, together with an outraged suspicion that their stupidity must have an element of semi-intentional malevolence, for which simple, rational decency demands a rebuke.
The 1601 Act stated that charities for the benefit of the "aged, impotent and poor people" had an appropriate purpose; it is accepted that these may appear individually.
Intersex people, impotent men, and transgender women are encouraged to see themselves as called on by the Goddess to become hijra.
The first of these "sub-categories" contains trusts for the benefit of the sick and old; the Preamble to the 1601 Act gave "aged, impotent and poor people" as acceptable beneficiaries for a charity.
The films are certainly doom-laden, which some believe can leave people feeling impotent.
This kind of disaster makes people feel impotent, and finding ways to help others can restore a sense of competence and control.
In addition, Arab rulers, despite all the weapons their states have bought from America and elsewhere, again find themselves exposed to their own people as impotent to handle a serious regional problem.
The caretaker government is perceived as impotent by the Iraqi people, whose frustrations have mounted over electricity shortages during the hot summer and a political class that has produced little evident progress from months of backroom negotiations.
Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
