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  %KEY LOCK PRISON ADDICT COLLUSION SHARE REFLEXIVE 900203

     Collusions,   addictions and codependent patterns  of
attitudes,   emotions,  thoughts and behaviors grow in the
absence  of healthy people who are free and able to  have,
own and share honest reflexive insights.

     The power of collusions,  addictions and codependence
to undermine peoples'  integrity depends upon their  power
to  keep  people from having,  owning and  sharing  honest
reflexive insights into their own experiences.

     The foundation of all reflexive insight and truth  is
to   be  found  in  privately  reflecting  upon  our   own
experiences.   If we are not free to honestly  reflect  in
private upon our own experiences;  then we are not free in
any  meaningful  sense,  and cannot know the truth in  any
meaningful sense.  If all our reflections are dominated by
what  other  people  say,  think and do;   we  are  surely
participants  in  collusive,   addictive  and  codependent
patterns of disintegration.

     If we are not free to be honest with ourselves  about
what  is most unquestionably our own,  we cannot be honest
with others about anything which is really important to us
or to them. We are then reduced to being honest about only
unimportant technical details;  and being misleading about
all  important matters.  Meaningful honesty is  rooted  in
private  honest  reflection,  meditation,   prayer,   etc.
Children  should  be taught to engage  in  private  honest
reflection,   meditation,  prayer,  etc.  Only with skills
learned there can they defend themselves against our  many
collusions,    addictions  and  codependent  patterns   of
attitudes, emotions, thought and behavior.

     Collusions,    addictions  and  codependent   support
networks are threatened by private reflexive honesty;  and
so  they  all work to minimize private reflexive  honesty.
The threat may be minimized by keeping children from  ever
learning  of the importance of private reflexive  honesty;
enslaving them to group-think, group-feel and group-action
to keep them from having new insights which might  involve
recognizing   the  essential  misleading   behaviors   and
"truths"   of  the  collusion,  addiction  or  codependent
supportive  network.  Their prayer life must be  carefully
directed!

     Young  people  can  be  prevented  from  engaging  in
private reflexive honesty by keeping them constantly  busy
with technical considerations which are perceived as being
of   great  importance  and  communal  value.    Technical
education is thus a useful tool of collusions, addictions,
and codependent support networks.

     In   a  technocratic society,  education  is   turned
into  technical  training which masks itself as  education
and  obscures  the difference;  and focuses  upon  keeping
students from engaging in private reflexive honesty. There
must  never be time for students to reflect honestly  upon
their  own  experiences,   and such  reflections  must  be
treated  as  of so little importance as to be unworthy  of
time  and  discussion;  technical issues are of  far  more
importance.   Training which is masked as  education  thus
focuses  exclusively  upon technical issues;   never  upon
private  personal  reflection  which  might  threaten  the
collusions,  addictions and codependent support network of
those who have power.

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