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 %SHIFTING FOCUS ATTENTION DOMINATION SYSTEM DEVILS+000910
 %TRANSCEND ESCAPE DOUBLE BIND PRISON COLLUSION SIN+000910
    %FRIEND LOYAL ENEMY TRAITOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION+000910
 %IDEAS IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES WINNER LOSER GOODS+000910
   %GRANT HONOR RESPECT SUPPORT SELECTION AUTHORITY+000910
  %DEFENSIVE FEAR SECURITY ALIENATION VULNERABILITY 000910
                                                          
     In order to transcend,  understand,  and subvert "The
Domination System" and its supporters we need to:         
                                                          
     1.  Shift  attention away from issues related to  who
is good and who is evil.                                  
                                                          
     2.  Shift attention away from who is dominant and who
is subservient; who is "winning" and who is"losing".      
                                                          
     3.  Shift  attention away from who is  "friend/loyal"
and who is "enemy/traitor".                               
                                                          
     4.  Seek  to  resolve conflicts between/among  ideas,
ideals, values, principles, and people --- without winners
becoming winners at the expense of losers.                
                                                          
     5.  Decline  to grant honor,  respect and support  to
domineering  people who seek to acquire/exercise power  at
the expense of losers;  e.g., at the expense of vulnerable
people who have less:   power,   respect,  honor,  status,
money,     posessions,    goods,    knowledge,    friends,
connections, influence, etc.                              
                                                          
     6.  Decline  to  view security as having to  do  with
being  invulnerable by virtue of accomplishments  achieved
by self and trusted  friends ---  rather than as having to
do with being free to  be safely  vulnerable  with friends
and  "enemies"   in  efforts  to  resolve  conflicts  non-
violently, cooperatively, and to everyone's advantage.    
                                                          
     We  cannot shift attention away from negative factors
by    harping   on    negative   consequences   such    as
alienation,  ignorance, prejudice, bias, etc.   We need to
focus   upon    positive ways   of   focusing   attention,
honor,  respect, and support ---  and be ready to point to
the advantages  in doing so in terms  of:  reconciliation,
education, justice, mercy, humility,  conflict-resolution,
power-sharing, peace, shalom, healing, creativity, etc.   
                                                          
     We  need  to   be  wise as serpents  and also  become
aware of, recognize,    name,   describe,   and beware  of
domineering  people who want to keep our attention focused
narrowly  and exclusively  upon their favorite  conflicts,
contentions,  issues,    battles,   and causes ---   where
they  know  how to play the dominant roles  to  their  own
selfish advantage.                                        
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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