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  %PREOCCUPATION ISSUES CONTROL RATIONAL DISCIPLINE 971201                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     There  are   correlations between preoccupations with                                                              
issues   of   control   and   preoccupation   with   other                                                           
considerations --- for interesting reasons:                      
                                                                                                                               
     1.  It    is   illogical   to   expect    irrational,                                                                     
unreasonable and  un-intelligent people to demonstrate  an                                                                    
ability  to  conform  their  behavior  to  an  articulated            
standard for "proper" behavior ---  for con-formity has to                                                       
do with forming self in intelligent and reasonable ways.      
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The  ability to  control the  outcomes  of  human                                            
efforts  relates  intimately to abilities  to  understand,                     
predict   and  manipulate  in  ways  which   insure   such      
conformity  between a vision and an actual development  of            
causes and effects.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Control  entails having a vision and  seeking  to                                                           
fulfill  the  vision through manipulative efforts ---   an                                
unlikely  combination  in people who regard the  world  as                                 
essentially chaotic and non-understandable.                  
                                                                                                                               
     Thus, people who excel in rationality,  intelligence,                                                                    
articulations,  concern for appearances,  envisioning, and                               
visions --- are qualified to be preoccupied with issues of                                                                     
control  as are addicts and codependents.    Those  people                                                
who  are  not  so  qualified  are less  likely  to  be  so                                                                     
preoccupied.     The  correlations  seem to be  reasonable                                                              
correlations  ---  only if you are qualified to make  such                                                              
such  connections.     People who are unqualified to  make                                                                    
such connections are  often  reasonably  unconcerned about                               
attempting to make them occur, or appear to occur.                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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