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%ALIENATIVE DOMINANCE CONTROL MANIPULATION VIOLENCE 971015           
                                                                                                                               
     Some  people  seem to feel that it is their  DUTY  to                                                                    
DOMINATE   other  people  ---   REGARDLESS  of  how   much                                 
ALIENATION their efforts engender.   We may be better able                                        
to facilitate  and  promote  both  personal  and  communal                                                                
integrity  if we  understand the roots of  this alienative                                        
sense of DUTY.   What is its motivation?                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     People  with this alienative sense of DUTY are  often                                        
themselves alienated from others.  They are the victims of    
a culture  in which this DUTY TO DOMINATE is pervasive. In                                                     
such  cultures,   many  members  of  the  culture  are  in               
competition  with  each other over being successfully  the                                                             
most  dominant.    There  can  be  only  one  successfully                                                     
DOMINANT  KING OF THE MOUNTAIN.    This means  that  there                                                     
must  be  many losers  in  the competition.    Losers  are               
alienated  from  winners  in  many  competitions ---   and               
certainly so  in  competitions  over  who will be the most                                                                     
dominant  through  the use of manipulative,  coercive  and                                
violent techniques.           
                                                                                                                               
     People  with  this  kind of a sense  of  DUTY  cannot                                                                    
respect  those  who do not have their kind of a  sense  of                                      
DUTY --- and cannot get along with those who do have their                                                                     
kind  of a sense of DUTY.    Also,  they cannot get  along                                                                     
with nor  respect  people who do not think  in "either/or"                                      
terms.    They cannot cannot resolve conflicts and do  not                                              
want to resolve conflicts.                                              
                                                                                                                               
     Whenever  there is a pervasive ultimate concern about                               
the   outcome   of  competitions   over   dominance    ---                                                     
participants repress   their  concerns  about  alienation,                           
violence, coercions,   manipulations  and addictions    to           
fixes,    solutions   and   technologies.       In    such                                                  
circumstances, insights and communications  are repressed,                                                                
and  people cannot  see  what they are doing to themselves    
and each other.     Personal  and communal  disintegration                                                               
becomes   pervasive  and  what  may  have  been  a   great                                                                     
civilization  and/or culture decays,  loses its  integrity                                                                   
and falls.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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