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  %HOW ESCAPE LIBERATE HEAL DOMINEERING PEOPLE EVIL+000728
  %DOMINATION SYSTEM COLLUSIONS ADDICTIONS GOODNESS 000728
                                                          
     How  can we escape from domineering people and "Their
Domination Systems"?                                      
                                                          
     1.  By   becoming   domineering   people   who manage
superior "Domination  Systems"?    By being "better"    at
dominating people,   for "better"  reasons,  with "better"
technologies? No,   for trying to do so is to surrender to
and  adopt   as our own ---  the attitudes,   assumptions,
beliefs, myths and thought patterns of domineering people!
In  such  attempts  we  are  bound  to  become  dishonest,
collusive,    addictive  and  codependent  supporters   of
"Domination Systems."                                     
                                                          
     2.  By  becoming passive people willing to submit  to
and suffer in silence under "Domination Systems" and their
domineering supporters ---  not resisting them in any way?
No, for in doing so we give to them significant amounts of
respect, honor and support.  We will become unable to know
whom  we can trust as honest,  gentle,  humble,   hopeful,
healthy peacemakers.                                      
                                                          
     3.  By  forming secret societies of  superior  people
who share with  each  other  secret  knowledge of terrible
domineering  people  and their "Domination  Systems"?   By
forming self-righteous societies who speak the truths with
each  other about how terrible "they"  are?   No,  for  in
doing  so  we  would adopt patterns of  arrogance,   self-
righteousness, judgementalism, excommunications, and other
foundations   for   the  formation of  our   own  superior
"Domination System" within our own exclusive groups.      
                                                          
     4.  By perceiving,  understanding and subverting  the
ways  of domineering people and their "Domination Systems"
---  in honest, gentle, gracious, humble, integrative ways
illustrated by honored leaders in non-violent revolutions;
e.g.,  Jesus of Nazareth,  Gandhi of India,  Martin Luther
King of Montgomery, Nelson Mandela of South Africa,   etc.
For  an  analysis of this practical  alternative  see  the
paperback book "The Powers That Be"  by Walter Wink.  Non-
violent  is not easy,  but it has been used with  enduring
success   many times to liberate,  by Wink's reckoning,  a
majority   of  the people  on planet Earth.     His  brief
book  and  others written   by  him  are   worth   careful
examinations   and thoughtful consideration.              
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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