This is http://www.essayz.com/a9105034.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %VICTIM SYSTEMIC DISHONESTY COLLUSION ADDICT TRUTH 910503 We often regard ourselves as being the victims of the actions of another individual or group of people whom we regard as evil, or as the enemy. We do not so often regard ourselves as being the victims of systematic dishonesty within a communal pattern of addiction, codependency and collusions. So long as we accept systemic dishonesty and show respect for it, we will continue to be victims of more than we are willing to see and discuss openly and honestly. If we try to deal with systemic dishonesty in terms of just the individual actions of individual participants in systemic dishonesty, we will continue to be victims of many aspects of the systemic dishonesty. All participants in systemic dishonesty are victims of the dishonesty, and of each other. As victims of systemic dishonesty we cannot cease being victims, so long as we continue to participate in the dishonesty which victimizes us. To transcend systemic dishonesty we need to recognize the character and various aspects of that which victimizes us. We are victimized by our own and other people dishonesty which we encourage each other to participate in, through our own participation in dishonesty. Dishonesty grows exponentially because each bit of dishonesty elicits additional dishonesty in efforts to cover up the dishonesty and its consequences. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================