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                         %CONTROL THROUGH ATTENTION 880408

     Some  confused  people  try to achieve  control  over
other  people  by the threat and  reality  of  alienation,
excommunication, shunning, estrangement, etc.

     The futility of such an effort is clear to anyone who
can   see   that  alienation  entails  the  breakdown   of
dialogue/communication  which  is the essence of  coherent
behavior  which  is  essential  to any  kind  of  coherent
control.    Coherent  control  depends upon  dialogue  and
communication.     In   the  absence   of   dialogue   and
communication  it  is impossible for there to be  coherent
behavior.    It  is  therefore absurd in  the  extreme  to
attempt  to  achieve control by threatening  to  eliminate
that which is essential to coherent control!  The confused
people  who  attempt to achieve such control are  confused
because they have fused together elements which need to be
separate  to  function properly in  inter-dependent  ways.
With such fusing together of elements,  coherent  behavior
is impossible because of the paralysis of confusion.

     In  confusion,  elements which need to work  together
are  frozen  together in incoherent patterns which do  not
make  sense.    The freedom to change coherently is  lost.
Healthy growth is not possible in confusion.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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