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%ANXIETY FRUSTRATION ADDICTS REALITY DENIAL RITUALS 880615

     Dishonest  rituals  designed to deny the  reality  of
painful  truths  tend to generate  anxiety,   frustration,
fear,  tension,  etc.   The rituals are expensive in time,
energy,  money,  honesty, etc;  but are doomed to failure.
The participants in the rituals hope that the rituals will
succeed,     but  at some subconscious level  participants
know   that   they will  fail,   and are tense over  their
ambiguous   state   of perception.     Dishonest   rituals
are used  to  deny  the reality of birth,  sexual desires,
and death;  because they point to human finitude.

     Dishonest  rituals are used to deny the injustices of
economic  systems because they make  people  uncomfortable
with  the  possibility  of the collapse  of  the  economic
system which is unjust.

     Dishonest rituals are used to deny the limitations of
human  knowledge  and power,  because most humans are  not
free to be vulnerable in secure contexts.

     Dishonest  rituals  of  money spending  are  used  by
spendaholic addicts to deny the reality of their desperate
condition,    and  thereby  make  their  conditions   more
desperate.   Similarly smokers,  over eaters,  alcoholics,
gamblers,   workaholics,   sexaholics and other  forms  of
addicts  use their own peculiar rituals to try to deny  or
conceal  the truth of their conditions.

     Militarists use militaristic exercises to try to deny
the  truth of their vulnerability and defensiveness;   and
their  lack  of security.   Their rituals do not  increase
their  security;   they merely try to deny the reality  of
their  insecurity.   Defensive rituals declare insecurity,
they  do  not  eliminate  insecurity;    even  though  the
ostensible  purpose  of   the  rituals  is  to   eliminate
insecurity.    Security  is the  freedom to be vulnerable,
and  cannot  be  achieved   by  any   form  of   defensive
maneuvers  no  matter  how   scientific,   technical   and
potentially  destructive  are the means of  the  defensive
maneuvers.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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