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%ADDICT CHOOSE VALUES IDEALS CONTROL DESIRE EMOTION 900306

     The  addictive  personality who seeks fulfillment  in
being in control naturally chooses ideals and values which
lead  one  to  focus  upon  those  particular  things  and
processes which can be controlled;  and lead one to  avoid
those  others  which  cannot  be  controlled.    Addictive
processes  thus lead the development of the value  systems
of  addictive personalities;  but in hidden ways according
to the rules of collusive games of mutual self deception.

     Inanimate  objects can be controlled.    Mathematical
relationships can be controlled.   Manufactured  equipment
and  instruments can be controlled.   So it is  also  with
dead  and dying people;  and people who are not  liberally
educated.    Authoritarian  people (both manipulators  and
victims)  yield to efforts to control.   All these are the
natural foci of attention of addictive personalities.

     Authentic  human relationships cannot be  controlled.
Human desires cannot be controlled,  even when expressions
of them are partially controlled.  So also with many other
human   emotions.     Reflexive  perceptions   cannot   be
controlled.    All these facts are  naturally  frustrating
to  addictive   personalities and present  dilemmas  which
cannot  be   solved,    fixed,    or   resolved    through
technical  procedures.      Since   addictive   fixes   do
not    bring  satisfaction in the face of  such  dilemmas,
every  effort  is  made by addicts  to  avoid  consciously
facing  such  dilemmas;  by evading  confrontation  and/or
consciousness.

     It  is  not  only  those  people  who  are  generally
recognized  as addicts who behave in addictive ways;  most
people  in  an  addictive  society  are  prone  to   avoid
consciously  facing  dilemmas which cannot be  fixed  with
technical procedures.  The value systems of a technocratic
society are conceived and refined under the leadership  of
addictive  personalities who seek to focus their attention
upon  what  can be controlled;  and seek to avoid  dealing
with   realities   which  cannot  be   controlled.     The
disintegrative  growth of technology is thus guided by the
desires and fears of addictive personalities.

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