This is http://www.essayz.com/b0007122.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.} ========================================================== %LOCAL PROVINCIAL DOMINATION SYSTEMS NARROW FOCUS+000712 %EXCLUSIVE LEADER DOMINEERING PEOPLE QUESTIONS SIN+000712 %ISSUES CONTROL POWER CORRUPTION TRUTHS AFFIRMATION+000712 %DOMINATE MALE BREEDING CHILDREN OFFSPRING FEMALES+000712 %EVOLUTION CONFLICT RESOLUTION PEACEMAKING LOVE SEX+000712 %MORALITY ETHICS WAR TERROR WEAPONS NUCLEAR BOMBS+000712 %GOOD EVIL JUDGEMENT CONDEMNATION PUNISH CRUCIFY+000712 %HERESY PARADOX AMBIGUITY CERTAINTY LINES CHAOS GOD 000712 The local/provincial "Domination System" maintains power and/or control by limiting questions and/or issues to those which are suggested by the following: 1. WHO should be in control and/or the dominant leader and/or male? The answer to "who" may be an INDIVIDUAL or a CLIQUE, a particular exclusive individual or exclusive group --- with narrowly defined criteria of acceptability/inclusion. Only those who qualify may be accepted and participate in controlling behaviors. 2. WHAT should be the dominant QUESTIONS/ISSUES around which other QUESTIONS/ISSUES must revolve ---and/or to which others must relate in subservient ways? Only a very few dominant QUESTIONS/ISSUES may be the basis for excluding consideration of other QUESTIONS/ISSUES, AFFIRMATIONS, PERCEPTIONS, and WAYS-OF-UNDERSTANDING what is important. 3. WHAT MYTHOLOGY/TECHNOLOGY/PARADIGM should dominant the selection of dominant LEADERS, QUESTIONS and ISSUES? By what MEANS shall subservient AGENTS be excluded? Under what RULES shall contests for supremacy be fought? What RULES, LAWS, COMMANDMENTS, PRESCRIPTIONS, PROSCRIPTIONS, etc. --- shall be the supreme rules to be honored above all others, to others' exclusion?. 4. What ULTIMATE CONCERNS shall dominate over all other concerns, interests, priorities, desires, hopes, aspirations, affirmations, visions, dreams, etc? What forms shall respected IDOLS take? Of what shall the IDOLS be made? How must the dominant IDOLS be fabricated? Dominance is impossible in the absence of exclusivity. Thus exclusivity plays a key role in achieving and maintaining dominance, control, and good appearances for the local/provincial "Domination System". The above patterns may well have originated during the billions of years of evolution of life forms through the "success" of dominant males that have ruled over which DNA molecules have survived and which DNA molecules have not survived. The above considerations have not played an entirely exclusive role in the survival of currently present DNA molecules --- relative to other "defective" DNA molecules which are no longer present. Some species have survived because of superior ways of cooperation and integration of the diverse aspects of complementary members of the same species --- and/or complementary members of complementary other species. Recognizing how the above considerations have played important roles in the survival of currently present DNA molecules --- relative to other "defective" DNA molecules which are no longer present --- will NOW play a helpful role in the future survival of currently present DNA molecules --- relative to other "defective" DNA molecules which are NOW present. The local/provincial "Domination System" cannot remain dominant unless it is successful in excluding from consideration those questions/issues which revolve around words such as the following words: INTEGRITY RELATIONSHIPS HONESTY BALANCE PERSONAL COMMUNAL DIALOGUE MUTUALITY LIBERATION HEALING RECONCILIATION COOPERATION FORGIVENESS GENEROSITY GENTLENESS HUMILITY TOLERANCE RESPECT LOVE CREATIVITY VULNERABILITY SANCTUARY SECURITY SAFE CHILDREN GROWTH MEEKNESS INTIMACY FRIENDSHIP FELLOWSHIP WHOLE HOLY SYNERGY We will do well and be well when we are free to think about, write about, talk about and give careful consideration all that is suggested above. We will not do well or be well when we are not free to think about, write about, talk about or give careful consideration to all that is suggested above. We need to be aware of and beware of those dominant people whose patterns of attitudes, thoughts and behaviors stand in the way of our being free to think about, write about, talk about and give careful consideration to all that is suggested above. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================