This is http://www.essayz.com/b0002212.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TOOLS TECHNIQUES MEANS DOMINATION SYSTEM COERCION+000221 %CONTROL PURPOSE OSTENSIBLE APPARENT REAL INFORMAL+000221 %MOTIVATION STYLE RELATIONAL CONTEXT COSMOS MYTH+000221 %METAPHOR GOOD EVIL DISTINCTIONS PEOPLE SYSTEMIC+000221 %DILEMMA PROBLEM FAMILY COOPERATION CONFLICT TALK 000221 To mitigate "The Domination System" we need to recognize the scope of the "Tool Kit" which supporters of "The Domination System" make use of --- as they work to prevail in their coordinated domination efforts. Their tool kit includes: SECRECY MYSTERIES DECEPTION DISHONESTY OVER-SIMPLIFICATION OVER-COMPLICATION CONFUSION CERTAINTY CONTENTIOUSNESS ENDLESS-CONFLICTS DICHOTOMIZATION YES/NO QUESTIONS ARROGANCE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS ABSOLUTE-TRUTHS HIERARCHIES CAST SYSTEMS HEREDITARY-POWERS ANCIENT SCRIPTURES ANCIENT LANGUAGES INTERPRETATION-FIGHTS SECRETE-RITUALS MAGICAL-RITUALS MYSTERY CLEANLINESS-CODES PERFECTION-CODES EXCLUSIVITY EXCOMMUNICATIONS CONDITIONAL-LOVE PUNISHMENTS THREATS AMBIGUITY COLLUSIONS ADDICTIONS CODEPENDENCIES TECHNOCRACIES DISEASES PREJUDICES IGNORANCE TRADITIONS HABITS COMPULSIONS INHIBITIONS REPRESSIONS TABOOS SUPPRESSIONS These tools are not necessarily inherently evil. Evil has to do with the nature of human-relationship. Evil-relationships may be engendered by the ways in which these tools are use and play roles in human- relationships. Evil- relationships may be engendered by the purposes (ostensible, apparent, real, formal, informal, etc.) which guide the use of tools and engender the styles of use which occur. Technocrats and self-righteous/arrogant people are more likely to use tools in alienative ways than are true- lovers. People whose lives are dominated by fear(s) are likely to use tools in alienative ways which poison human-relationships with disintegrative: ideals, values, goals, purposes, myths, cosmologies, and principles. Thus disease and sickness, rather than health and healing may be promoted. Such effects can very effectively be used in support of "The Domination System". Peacemakers need to understand the way in which supporters of "The Domination System" weave webs of perverse uses of tools --- tools which may in some occasions and circumstances be used to promote healthy humane-relationships; rather than evil human- relationships. "Good tools" can be used/abused to justify procedures which lead to evil-relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================