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 %DOMINATIONS SYSTEMS HIDE MANIPULATIONS POWERS SIN+010104
%REPRESSIONS DOUBLE BIND INSIGHTS NATURE COMPLEXITY+010104
%DICHOTOMIES WEB FABRIC META IDEALS VALUE PRINCIPLE 010104
                                                          
     One of the many ways in which Domination Systems hide
how  they manipulate power ---  is by repressing  insights
into the nature of the complexity  of the  web  of  inter-
relationships  among  human:  ideals,  values,  attitudes,
hopes, aspirations, fears, principles, etc.  For example: 
                                                          
     1.  By reducing all issues to either/or, right/wrong,
good/evil, proper/improper, required/forbidden, etc.      
                                                          
     2.  By  insisting that each truth be presented in one
and  only  one way  ---   in  isolation  from  many  other
complementary truths; i.e., eliminate redundancies.       
                                                          
     3.  By   insisting   that  each  isolated  truth   be
presented in one and only one language and context; rather
than  in diverse languages and contexts which  reveal many
possible perspectives on the full  fabric of complementary
truths' inter-relationships.                              
                                                          
     4.  By focusing  only  upon  written/verbal languages
which scribes  can dominate;  excluding from consideration
body-language, facial-expressions, eye-contacts, gestures,
dance,   symbolic  actions,  art,   music,   song,   jazz,
symphonies,  rituals, etc.                                
                                                          
     5.  By  focusing only upon limited sets of  contexts;
rather  than upon all kinds of contexts defined  in  terms
of:  science,  politics,  religion, business,  technology,
faith, hopes,  fears, integrity, conflict, coercion, love,
war, cooperation, sexuality, etc.                         
                                                          
     6.  By limiting favorable public attention  to formal
publications   and  procedures  which  supporters  of  the
Domination System can control; and by denigrating insights
and  communications which are limited to small  groups  of
people within informal communities and procedures.        
                                                          
     7.  By   limiting   favorable  public  attention   to
quantitative  considerations  and descriptions  which  are
expressed  in mathematical languages;  and by  denigrating
insights which are embedded  in  and  communicated through
anecdotes, examples,  stories,  myths,  novels,  pictures,
movies, dramas, etc.                                      
                                                          
     8.  By   limiting   favorable  public  attention   to
traditional  forms of  scholarly/scientific  research  and
publications; and  by  denigrating  insights  which evolve
through meditation, prayer, and spiritual rituals.        
                                                          
     9.  By prescribing: exclusivity, coercion, deception,
dishonesty,  intolerance,  rejections and excommunications
---  as required manipulative  tools  in  "teaching"  non-
conformists  the "lessons"  that they "need"  to  "learn."
People who do not follow such prescriptions faithfully are
labeled as "non-conformists"  and are taught the "lessons"
that they "need" to "learn" through alienative means.     
                                                          
     If  we do not recognize how supporters of  Domination
Systems  protect  their means of control;  we have  little
chance  of  recognizing,  naming,  describing and  talking
about and  subverting  Domination Systems,  and  how  they
undermine diverse and complimentary forms of  personal and
communal integrity.                                       
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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