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 %SYMPTOM FEAR LOSS CONTROL DESIRE SHOULD LOVE EVIL 890509

     The   following   are   symptoms   of    communities'
communicable  diseases  which are the roots of  many  evil
behaviors:

     The desire to control people's lives.

     A felt responsibility to control people.

     A preoccupation with control of people.

     Technologies designed to control people's behaviors.

     Respect for people who show evidence of the above.

     Rewards given to people who show the above symptoms.

     Fear of loss of the above symptoms of dis-ease.

     Confusing  "being  in  love",  with  falling  into  a
diseased  relationship  of  intensification of  the  above
symptoms.

     Efforts   at   being   in control   of   people   are
evil;   because  they all lead to dishonest  manipulation,
coercion,  violence, rejection, alienation,  estrangement;
and to disintegration of dialogue, soul, spirit, community
and integrity in general.

     People  and  communities  that  are  the  victims  of
control diseases are preoccupied with technical questions,
means  and  resources.  They  cannot  distinguish  between
technical questions,  and questions relating to the  value
of   various  genuine  alternative  approaches  to   human
dilemmas.   They are confused because in their  perception
different  things  are  fused,  and seem to  be  the  same
things.   They fear the loss of their symptoms of  control
diseases,   for they are addicted to the whole pattern  of
behavior associated with those symptoms.  They respect and
seek to fulfill all the possibilities of their symptoms of
disease.   They  are disintegrating,  and cannot  perceive
their  disintegration,  because they have been blinded  by
their disease.

     People  who are disintegrating often perceive  people
of  integrity  as  having and owning  something  which  is
missing from their own lives of disintegration.  They seek
to acquire and gain control of that missing ingredient, by
gaining  control  of  those people who seem  to  have  the
missing ingredient.  The missing ingredient is the LACK OF
PREOCCUPATION with control. Those who are preoccupied with
control   cannot  perceive  the  nature  of  the   missing
ingredient,   and  how  it  leads  to  the  serenity   and
tranquility which they seek to acquire, own and control.

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