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     Those who experience violence are victims.   Violence
occurs  whenever  the  personal integrity of a  person  is
violated;   be  it  by an individual  or  an  institution,
through physical force or psychological manipulation,   in
an  overt or a covert manner,  through good intentions  or
for selfish gain.

     Television  is  the  channel of communication  for  a
great  deal  of  violence.  It is  used  to  channel  into
practically all homes inhumane images of what it means  to
be a person, to be sexual,  to be successful, to be funny,
to  be desirable,  to have a ground for being  someone  of
worth.    These  images do violence to  the  integrity  of
persons and so violence to the viewers who internalize the
images as self-images without understanding.

     Selfish  corporations make use of television,  radio,
and  the  press to trick people into buying  things  which
they  do  not need,  but which they are caused to want  as
means  to hope and meaning,  Those who are so tricked  are
the  victims of the corporations whose primary purpose  is
survival  rather  than service to help people solve  their
real   problems  through  authentic  meeting  and   mutual
understanding of the natural consequences of decisions and
actions.

     Technocrats perpetuate images of society as dependent
upon  technocrats  to greater and greater extents  as  the
technocratic  society intensifies itself,  all in the name
of  progress and the national interest.  The real personal
needs of selves for intimate relationships with  integrity
are  placed  far  down on the list of values  affirmed  by
technocrats.    Thus  real persons become the  victims  of
technocrats  who  are  not  sensitive  to  the   emotional
responses  of  people who have not ceased to live  in  the
eternal now.

     Victims  who  find  themselves in a in  a  can't  win
situation  may naturally resort to collusions to make life
bearable until death liberates them. Victims are likely to
find  it  all  but impossible to accept the  freedom  made
possible  through a liberation other than death,   because
with  that freedom comes a great deal of responsibility in
association with the rights of free men.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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