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%MILITARY ADDICTIVE TECHNOCRATIC DICTATOR AUTHORITY 900309

     Military dictatorships often entail the processes  of
addictive   technocrats   in   the   business   of   being
manipulative,   coercive,   violent,   controlling,    and
alienative  as  they seek to have and hold onto power  and
authority.

     There  are  no  clean  distinctions  between  various
degrees of abuse of power and authority.   The  transition
from  a  benevolent/paternalistic government to a military
dictatorship  can be gradual without catastrophic  change;
and  vice versa.   The change is particularly difficult to
deal with if it is concealed by collusive games of  mutual
self deception in which all the citizens participate.  The
movement from integrity to the lack of integrity may be  a
popular  movement  which  receives  majority  support  and
respect.

     When  society becomes addictive in its processes  the
stage  is  set for popular leaders to acquire  dictatorial
powers  under  the  guise  of  being  benevolent  paternal
figures   who   know  better than  ordinary  citizens  how
citizens should  be taken care of.    The dictator may  be
an   addict playing  the  role of a benevolent codependent
who   takes  good  care  of  his/her  supporting  cast  of
players   in   a communal  collusive game of  mutual  self
deception.      The dictator  may  be  a   popular  addict
who  receives  broad support and respect.

     Powerful  addicts  are  often  highly  respected  and
granted   great   power  by  their  cast   of   supportive
codependents.    Powerful addicts may be military  leaders
with addictive followers in armed forces who are ready  to
do violence in addictive service of their common collusive
games  of mutual self deception.   They are honor bound to
engage in arms races with each other in efforts to perfect
their  technologies of   seeking   security  in ways which
undermine true security.

     Powerful  addicts  are unlikely to promote  open  and
honest   intimacy   in  open  and  honest   relationships.
Militarists  and  technocrats seek to  minimize  open  and
honest  intimacy  by  separating people  into  contrasting
classes  who look upon each other as  being  fundamentally
different  and  subject to use and  abuse.    They  divide
people up into classes according to nationality, religion,
economic  station,  sex,  and life style;  and teach  each
class to distrust each other class.   Such divisions  make
each   class  easier  to  manipulate  and  control.    The
divisions   promote   confusion  and  eliminate   creative
initiatives which might trouble the leadership.

     Powerful    addicts   promote   the   evolution    of
disintegrative  dichotomies  in processes of  thought  and
personal   relationships.    Dichotomies  are   divisions.
Dichotomous  language promotes divisions which make people
easier to manipulate.   It promotes the cause of addictive
leaders  to encourage people to concentrate upon questions
having to do with which pole of each dichotomy is the best
pole.     Such preoccupations help to maintain   confusion
and  inhibit  integrative  processes which might undermine
the    collusive     leadership    processes    of     the
dictatorship.   Dichotomies may have to do with  concepts,
word-use,   social classes,  religious classes,   economic
classes,  educational classes,   etc.    They  may  all be
manipulated   to   the advantages of a dictatorship  which
may be invisible to its victims and its leaders.

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