Impudite Dissonance Rationalization

[Azel]

It's only materialistic if you see "what" solely in the human terms of material things.

Harold Lasswell's definition is an easy to grok summation of power, which is what Mercurians and Impudites resonate to (one being more focused on the body politic and the other actual Force makeup). Status, essence, tethers, forces, relationships, position, viewpoint, etc. are all part of the tangible stakes of what gets distributed. What you see as non-materialistic generalizations, such as getting one's own way, positioning, agreed terms, etc., is as real to celestials as the material world is to us.

From a celestial perspective what do they need to conform to human attitudes, that abstract reasonings to power are somehow separate from Lasswell's summary of distribution? They don't do nominalistic at all; the word is real, they've literally seen and lived it from the ethereal and celestial plane. Humans are free to pretend otherwise, and they can afford that luxury because they are creatures of matter, not creatures of thought and soul. The distinction we'd see here just would not be relevant to them.