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%COPING ADDICTION SCOPE COMMUNAL EFFORT GOOD PEOPLE 910626

     The  task of coping with addiction is a task for  the
whole  community  as a whole,   not just a task for  overt
addicts who  are recognized as addicts by the good  people
of  the community.

     The   overtly  recognized  addicts  are  symptoms  of
the addictions  of  the  whole community;    i.e.,     the
overt  manifestations of the covert addictions of the good
people  who  recognize  only  the  overt  addicts  of  the
community, but not their own addictions.

     There  is  a tendency on the part of the good  people
of   a community to think and behave as if it is the talks
of the overtly   recognizable   addicts   to  cope    with
their  addictions;    i.e.,    that  they the good  people
of   the personal  community  not bear any  responsibility
for   the manifestations of their own "good"   addictions.
The   good  people   of  the  community  think  that   the
addictions  belong to the overtly recognized addicts;  but
not, in any way, to themselves.

     It    is   important  for  the  good  people  of    a
community   to  understand  that  even though  it  is  not
obvious   to   them,  they  embody features  of  addiction
which  are  manifested in the behavior  of  the  obviously
recognized addicts.   Part of the  addictive process is to
conceal  the  ways  in  which  the  good   people  of  the
community  participate in the  creating of the context for
the overtly addictive processes.  One of the  dishonesties
of  the  addictive  process is the  process of   the  good
people  of  a community believing and acting as  if   they
were  not contributors to the  addictive  process;   i.e.,
without  sin.   Participants in  such  dishonesties accept
the  propriety  of a classification  system  according  to
which   there   are  successful  good  people   who    are
acceptable  people;  and unsuccessful people who are  bad,
evil.  lazy,  foolish,  rejectable,  excommunicable and/or
otherwise  unacceptable  into respectable  dialogue.   The
acceptance  of and respect for that classification systems
is the foundation for addictions.

     It  is the apparently "good"   people of a  community
who  set the  stage on which addicts act out  their  overt
dramas   of addiction  and  codependence.   The  stage  is
set   by   what  values  and ideals are held up  as  being
worthy of ultimate respect;   by  the system of values and
ideals  which  are taken for granted by good people,   and
how  the values  and ideals  are affirmed.   The stage  is
set  for  addiction   and codependence when  personal  and
communal integrity are  not valued  highly;  and there are
expectations    of    conformity   with     threats     of
rejection,      excommunication,       dis-fellowshipping,
shunning,     and   alienation   directed   towards   non-
conformists.

     Addicts   and   codependents are characters  who  act
out  in extreme gestures the implications of the system of
values with  which  the good people of a community set the
stage for  the communal drama.   Addicts and  codependents
become imprisoned  in disintegrative understandings of the
verbal statements  of ideals and values which are the  set
of  the communal stage.

     To   recover  from  addiction  and  codependence  the
community a a  whole  needs to reset the stage with ideals
and   values  which focus upon true personal and  communal
integrity,  and which  facilitate open and honest communal
discussions  of all kinds of imperfections and mistakes.

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