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 %DISHONEST POWERFUL PROFESSION COMPENSATION RELATE 900530

     Professionals  are  often people who are involved  in
unhealthy   personal  relationships,   and   involved   in
activities which entail dishonest compensations for  their
unhealthy  personal relationships.   Often some aspects of
their  professional relationships involve pretending  that
the  replacement  of  some  essential  aspect  of  healthy
intimate  personal  relationships  with  some professional
substitute is  an  o.k.   replacement.  Their professional
life may entail attempts to compensate for lacks  in their
personal life.   Such attempts  are usually disintegrative
because they are dishonest.

     Professional  workaholics seek to compensate for  and
get  fixes  for  their unsatisfactory  personal  lives  by
totally   immersing   themselves  in  their   professional
activities  which bring them superficial levels of respect
and honor.  They become addicted to the appearance of  the
ability to  be in control in their professional lives when
they get frustrated at not being able to be  in control of
their personal lives.  They are prone to abuse power which
is entrusted to them, because they are not   being  honest
with  themselves  regarding   what  motivations  drive and
direct  them.  Those around them who are their  assistants
are  prone to become participants in addictive/codependent
professional  relationships,   and so help to  develop  an
addictive    organization    with   many    disintegrative
ramifications.

     A   community  has  legitimate  reasons    for  being
concerned  about  the behavior of the private addicts  who
abuse  drugs  in  their personal lives.    Such  addictive
behavior poses a threat to the integrity of the community.

     Each community should be at least equally   concerned
about   the   addictive   behaviors   of   the   respected
professionals in the community who are entrusted with much
power;   for  in  their  case  addictive   and codependent
behaviors  entail  the corruption  of the power with which
they are entrusted as professionals.

     Addicts  specialize  in  the development of  ways  to
conceal  their dishonest addictive patterns  of  behavior.
Professionals  who  are  addicts also  specialize  in  the
development  of  addictive ways to conceal their dishonest
addictive patterns of behavior;  ways which may not entail
the use of illegal drugs at any point.   Illegal drugs are
not the  essence of addiction.   The  essence of addiction
has  to  do with dishonest  fixes,   dishonest attempts to
control  self and others,  insecurity and low self-esteem,
confusion,   forgetfulness  and  selective  memory   which
conceals dishonesty.   Many highly respected political and
educational   leaders,   scientists,   doctors,   lawyers,
merchants and chiefs of big  businesses  and  the military
are "into" addictive patterns of thought and behavior. The
greater  is their power,  the greater is the risk  to  the
integrity  of  their communities posed by their  addictive
ways of responding to difficult situations.

     Addicts seek technical fixes for difficult situations
which are not technical problems.   Addicts treat personal
dilemmas as technical problems,  and build up technocratic
patterns of response in their efforts to find fixes.

     This   pattern   is  played  out  in  the  political,
educational,  scientific, medical, legal, mercantile,  and
military playing fields;  where often the games are  games
of mutual self deception,  and deception of the spectators
who are led to respect the dishonest games which are being
played with high  technology  presented as worthy of honor
and  support because it holds the potential of fixing  all
outstanding  problems.   The spectators are  not told that
what  are  presented  as  problems  for  which  there  are
technical  fixes,   are really human dilemmas  for   which
there are no technical fixes.

     The resolution of human dilemmas can be realized only
through    being   honest   within   authentic    intimate
relationships;    not  through   impersonal,    objective,
specialized   efforts  of  technical  "experts".     Human
conflicts   and   insecurity  cannot  be   eliminated   by
experts-in-destruction,  ready to  use  violent  technical
fixes.   Addictions    cannot   be   eliminated   by   law
enforcement  officers  seeking to achieve  control;    for
addictions   have  to  do with trying to  be  in  control.
Human   disputes   and  misunderstandings     cannot    be
truly  resolved by    adversarial judicial procedures  and
technical   requirements   which encourage   the   use  of
misleading   presentations   and pretenses.      Addictive
and   codependent   blockages    to  learning  cannot   be
eliminated  by research specialists  who are  addicted  to
pure   research as a way  of  seeking  a compensatory  fix
for  their own inability to deal with  the dishonesty  and
emptiness of their own emotional lives.

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