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 %CAST SYSTEM ENGENDER EVIL RELATIONS POWER CONTROL+950620
  %ADDICT CODEPEND COLLUSION ELITE MANAGER BUSINESS+950620
%ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT DIALOGUE COMMUNICATION SIN 950620

     All social  cast systems for classifying people which
operate under whatever  name---engender evil relationships
of elite dominance and/or control; coupled with submission
and/or rebellion.

     Evil  relationships are characterized by  alienation,
estrangement, legalistic misunderstanding,  judgmentalism,
condemnations, punishments, excommunications, banishments,
and sacrifices.

     In  evil relationships some people are usually trying
to  appear  to be in control in order to  "improve"   upon
things, but they focus primarily upon things, not upon the
quality   of  reflexive  human  relationships   which  are
essential to personal and communal integrity.

     Since objective things can be controlled more readily
than can  reflexive human relationships---in  cast systems
where some people try to be in control of things, it is in
fact  things  which they focus attention upon.   They  are
willing  to sacrifice personal and communal  integrity  in
order  to put things in order according to whatever system
they  think is best.   In cast systems the  dominant  cast
does  not  focus  attention  upon  personal  or   communal
integrity;   for  each kind of integrity depends upon  the
other kind of integrity and  communal integrity  cannot be
maintained while  the personal integrity of the members of
the  lowest cast is sacrificed to achieve advantage of the
members of the highest cast.

     India  has  long had an overt  cast  system.    Other
nations  have long had less obvious cast systems which are
seen  in  ways which conceal the fact  that  their  social
structures have many of the features of cast systems which
are overtly cast systems.

     So  long  as a community is divided into casts  which
have  disparate  amounts of power to (apparently)   be  in
control,   so long there are bound to be evil (alienative)
relationships  among the members of the community.    True
justice  and truly mutual relationships of open and honest
dialogue  are  not possible while a cast system  is  being
maintained.   Those people who  move towards truly  mutual
relationships  of open and honest dialogue are bound to be
robbed  of their power within a cast system---because such
a move will undermine the power of the higher cast members
who  do  not want to lose the advantages which  they  have
within the cast system.

     Addictive  people  seek to be on top of the  heap  in
each cast system,  and seek to case low cast people in the
role of codependent supporters.

     Macho  males  seek  to  cast  submissive  females  in
supportive  roles  which  have  little  power  and  little
prestige.

     Technocratic    manipulators   seek   to   manipulate
incompetent people to get them to play roles as celebrants
of  technology---to  which  they get  addicted  under  the
leadership of the technocratic manipulators.

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