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    %RATIONAL SYSTEM DISCIPLINE CONTROL ADDICT GOOD 910422

     Systematic  people who  are  addicted to  rationality
often  assume  that  control  of human   behavior   should
without  question  be vested  in  systematic,    rational,
prescriptive,  ethical,   moralistic,   legalistic sets of
injunctions  and prohibitions  setting  out  in detail how
the   good  life should be lived;   and how the evil  life
should   be  avoided.   They   worship   such   judgmental
systems   as  having  been invested with the knowledge  of
Good and Evil by God in the Garden   of  Eden  in earliest
days  of  the  human   race,  conveniently forgetting  the
roles which humans have played in creating and using  such
systems  for judgmental purposes which are alienative  and
disintegrative.  They forget  why Adam   and  Eve left the
Garden of Eden after they ate  of the fruit of the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

     People who assume  that  human  emotions,  affection,
desires,   thoughts  and  behaviors should  be  under  the
control  of some system;    assume that the only remaining
questions have to do with the details of which injunctions
and   prohibitions  should   be woven together in  such  a
system.    They  cannot imagine  the possibility of living
fully  integrative  lives  in  the  absence  of  all  such
systems;   much less can  they imagine  that  such   lives
could be far  more  perfect  in meaningful   ways,    than
would   any  life   which   was successfully     conformed
to     the     best     possible  prescriptive/prohibitive
system.

     The addictive/codependent  mind  cannot  conceive the
level   o   freedom    from   manipulation,      coercion,
violence    and  alienative  judgmentalism  which  becomes
possible  for  people  who   let   go  of  the  ideal   of
controlling   human  behavior  through  conformity to some
prescriptive and/or prohibitive system.    To them letting
go  of  the  ideal  of  control is  to  let   go   of  the
possibility   of  getting  into  heaven.     They   cannot
conceive   that   their  clutching  to   the   ideal    of
control,   keeps them in the hell in which they live  with
that  ideal,   so they remain desperate to  get  into  the
heaven  which  they  falsely believe is  characterized  by
perfect       conformity      to      some       perfectly
prescriptive/prohibitive  system for how to feel,   think,
desire  and  behave.  Their idolatry keeps them  in  hell,
where they worship the ideal of being in control.

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