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  %DESCRIBE ADDICT POWER REPRESS CREATIVE LOVE EVIL+940310
 %CHAOS MORAL DECAY LAW ORDER OBEY DISCRIMINATE SEX+940310
  %LUNCH COUNTER LYNCH BLACK BUS SEAT SIT SMOKE LAW+940310
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     In    an   addictive  society  addicts    are   often
accustomed to  exercise  power to regulate the behavior of
poor  people who are denied access  to  power.     Addicts
come  to  regard disparity  in  the exercise of  power  as
normal,   natural, good,   and in keeping with their god's
divine  will.     American  white males often regard it as
their right to regulate Blacks,  Asians, Native Americans,
Latin Americans,   ethnic and religious minorities, women,
and children.

     When   addicts   begin  to  loose  their  power    to
regulate those minorities whom they are accustomed to have
the  power  to  regulate---they become  fearful  and  more
abusive;    saying  that  such behavior is   essential  to
restoring their kind  of  law  and order.  They may descry
the  decay  of morality,  decency,  and respect  for their
conformal  rules and regulations.  They fear  the  loss of
respect  for their patterns  of   coercive  manipulations.
They cannot believe that it is possible for a  society  to
be   healthy in the  absence  of  conformal behavior   and
the  rejection of non-conformists.  They  are terrified by
the acceptance of creative  non-conformists  who are  true
to  themselves and  to   others  with   personal integrity
in  communities  of integrity---for  such acceptance  will
undermine   their  addictive  power  to  regulate    those
minorities  whom they are accustomed to have the power  to
regulate.

     We  need  to  develop  ways  to  distinguish  between
addicts  lamenting   their  loss  of  power  to   regulate
minorities---on  the   one hand---and creative  people  of
integrity    describing disintegrative  behavior  patterns
which     are        tragically misguided and motivated by
destructive fears---on  the  other hand.    So  long as we
and others cannot  make   that  basic distinction, so long
we  will  continue to  be  enslaved  by  the domination
of dysfunctional addicts,   corrupt politicians, fanatical
religious   leaders,    segregationists, and dictators.

     "When  Society  Becomes  An Addict"   in  a  parallel
way "Society  Becomes  A   Codependent".    Addiction  and
codependency  are  two  sides of one coin which  grows  or
diminishes  paradoxically as  an incoherent chaotic whole.
Those aspects of  addiction  and  codependency which   are
manifested  in dysfunctional  personal relationships---are
echoed      in   societal,   organizational,    religious,
educational  and corporate lives  which  are  dominated by
powerful addicts  and codependents.  To  recover  we  need
to   attend    to   the   dysfunctionalities   which   are
characteristic   to   each   side   of   the    addictive-
codependent  coin  in  both  personal  relationships   and
corporate   relationships---within   families,    schools,
churches,    political   arenas, businesses, corporations,
organizations and nations.  Anne Wilson Schaef has offered
many   relevant  insights  in  her  book  "The   Addictive
Organization".
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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