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%DOMINATION SYSTEM TOOL TECHNOCRAT VAGUE WORLD VIEW+991228
%MYTHOLOGY CONFUSION SHIFTING HIDDEN PRAGMATIC EVIL+991228
%VALUES PRINCIPLES IDEALS SINS ALIENATION REJECTION+991228
%COLLUSION ADDICTION CODEPENDENT SERVANT OBEDIENCE 991228
Supporters of "The Domination System" make use of a
variety of tools to maintain dominance as a Life-Style;
e.g.,:
1. Pragmatically shifting back and forth between many
vaguely defined "World Views" and "Myths" which can be
used to justify various ideas, ideals, values, and
principles --- to take advantage of the points of
vulnerability of people who are: poor, weak, sick,
elderly, childish, ignorant, prejudiced, etc.
2. Keeping their set of "World Views" and "Myths" in
the background, confused, hidden, unarticulated, protected
by collusions, etc. --- so that none of their dominant
"World Views" or "Myths" can be discredited by being
discussed openly and honestly in public.
3. Being exclusive as regards what "World Views" and
"Myths" may be affirmed --- either overtly or covertly; so
as to prevent any occasion occurring wherein thoughtful
people might articulate and compare the dysfunctional
"World Views" and "Myths" which can be used to
support "The Domination System" --- over against
those integrative ones which can be used to transcend,
and subvert "The Domination System."
4. Directing people's attention towards provincial
issues relating to human: conflicts, contention,
disagreement, controls, discipline, and dichotomies ---
and away from essential foundations for possible:
peacemaking, conflict-resolution, cooperation,
reconciliation, forgiveness, mutual understanding,
healing, health, recovery, etc.
"The Domination System" depends upon maintaining the
"World Views" and "Myths" which lead people to believe
that they are MERELY ECHOES of ETERNAL CONFLICTS in
"Heaven" between "Gods" whose powers exceed those of mere
humans in ways which are not imaginable to mere humans.
"Heaven" may or may not be thought of as a literal
physical realm parallel to the physical realm in which
mere humans live. "Gods" may or may not be thought of in
literal personal terms; e.g., with some kinds of bodies
which can be brought together in various combinations and
result in new and/or subsidiary "Gods".
What is important to the maintenance of the
"Domination System" is the maintenance of the following
elements of belief among mere humans:
1. Humans are mere echoes of transcendent eternal
conflicts among transcendent powers which humans cannot
significantly influence.
2. In each conflict there must be losers --- in order
to meet the needs of winners.
3. The people who are poor, weak, powerless, sick,
dis-eased, confused, ignorant, disadvantaged, and
vulnerable --- are pre-destined to pay for losing
conflicts which will always be won by people who are rich,
strong, powerful, healthy, at-ease, certain, informed
and/or well-advantaged.
4. Conflicts will be temporarily "settled" by virtue
of contestants' superior powers to: discipline, rule,
dominate, coerce, violate, punish, enforce, etc.
5. No "battle" is final. The forces of "good" will
only temporarily "put down" the forces of "evil". The
losers will only fade into the metaphysical background
--- always to rise again and maintain the conflicts which
are essential to the survival of "The Domination System".
6. The people who are poor, weak, powerless, sick,
dis-eased, confused, ignorant, disadvantaged, and
vulnerable --- are in no essential way grounded in the
creative powers of the cosmos; they are at best fodder
and expendable. None of the "gods" care a bit about
such victims of their eternal conflicts --- conflicts that
are echoed eternally within "Space-Ship-Earth" moving
around an average star in the expanding cold cosmic void.
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