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  %BETTER LOSERS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY ISSUES+980806                                                                
  %CONTROL ADDICTION BLAME GUILT SHAME PUNISH 980806      
                                                                                                                               
     The  more completely the leaders of a community seeks                                                                
to  control  the behavior of its members,   the  more  the                                                       
creative  members  of  the  community  will find  ways  of      
rebelling   against  the leaders'    preoccupations   with                                                                     
issues of  control.     The integrity  of a community  and                                                           
of  its members depends  upon the creative efforts of  its                         
most creative members.     When the  creative abilities of                         
the  most  creative  members  of   a  community  ---   are                         
dedicated  to  rebellion   against  addictive  efforts  of                                                
leaders   to  control  and/or inhibit creativity ---   the                         
consequences are tragic.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     It will do no good to blame only  the creative people                         
who  rebelled  against addictive efforts which were guided                                                
by preoccupations with issues of control.  It WILL DO GOOD                                                           
to  graciously describe the dynamic  interactions  between                      
leaders' preoccupations with  issues of control ---    and                                                           
creative    people's   efforts    to     prevent      such                         
preoccupations from  inhibiting and/or  repressing healthy                                                                     
creativity  which transcends unhealthy preoccupations with                         
issues of control.                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     It  is  unhealthy to be preoccupied  with  issues  of                                                                     
control  in  ways which focus upon:  rules,   regulations,      
laws,  demands,  commandments,  disciplines,  punishments,                                                                     
judgments,     condemnations,    excommunications,     and                                                                
executions.    It is possible to develop  teachings  which                                                                     
describe how and why alienative behaviors lead to personal                                        
and communal disintegration.  To be helpful such teachings                                                                
need to be gracious,  gentle,  loving, open,  honest,  and                 
accurate  ---   and not be motivated by human  desires  to          
prove who is  better than others who are led to be,  or be                                                               
perceived to be, losers.        
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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