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     In  an addictive society where there is much  concern
over  control, many people fall into the trap of acting as
if no action should be taken unless it has been ordered or
explicitly  been  permitted.  Permission  not  granted  is
permission  denied  in such a  society.   Addicts  are  in
control and codependents are obedient; or so it may seem.

     Power  to control is power which corrupts  those  who
seem  to be in control;  and corrupts those who appear  to
yield  to control.   Corruption includes the sacrifice  of
honesty  upon the alter of preoccupation with control  and
so  includes  the sacrifice of  imagination,   creativity,
growth and health.

     Where  there  seems  to be the power to control  that
which cannot be controlled,  there is neither personal nor
communal integrity.  What seems to be true is rarely true.
What  seems not to be true is often true.  There  is  much
confusion  and much forgetting of lessons which might have
been learned from mistakes which are too soon forgotten or
repressed.  Hidden conflicts which are not resolved fester
endlessly  as people try to be in  control  of  what  they
cannot see, and about which they cannot be honest.  Who is
to  give  them  permission  to  be  honest?   Who  is  not
imprisoned within their collusions?

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