In that sense, the concept is circular. It is like the old Chinese concept of the “mandate of heaven”: emperors were said to rule because they had it, and when they were overthrown, it was because they had lost it.
魅力更容易在事件发生后被定义。在这个意义上，它其实是个自我循环的概念。正如古代中国所谓的“受命于天”：帝王因为得到了“天”的旨意而进行统治，而当他们都被推翻的时候，人们就认为“天”已经收回成命了。