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  %FIXER FIXED FIXING FIXATION DEFECTIVE COMPULSION 891113

     People  who  have  been  told  over  and  over   that
recommended  purchases will fix them up and make them o.k.
learn  that they are defective and in need of a fix.   Not
only  are they sold certain products,  they are  sold  the
idea  that  they are defective and in need of fixes  which
businessmen  are  eager to sell to them.   Such  consumers
become  fixated  upon finding the right fix to  compensate
for  their defects.  Their fixations are profitable to the
businessmen who taught them that they need to be fixed.

     Some  businessmen  seek to control the  behaviors  of
other  people  for  profit.   They  have  been  given  the
responsibility and the authority to manage the investments
of investors to make a profit by promoting the purchase of
fixes by people who have been taught that they need to  be
fixed.   To earn their living and to survive in what  they
regard  as  a  satisfactory way,  they need to  desire  to
control  the  attitudes and habits of mind  and  heart  of
others, so that they will buy the fixes offered for sale.

     The    capitalistic   consumer   market  place   thus
promotes   attitudes about self and others that  encourage
addicts  to  seek fixes of increasingly  addictive  kinds,
when  each  fix fails to satisfy their feeling  that  they
need  to be fixed.  The consumers need to transcend  their
imprisonment in the fixation that they need to be fixed to
feel o.k. about themselves.  They need to be authentically
loved, not to be fixed.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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