This is http://www.essayz.com/b0211121.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.} ========================================================== %DOMINEERING PEOPLE FOCUS EXCLUSIVELY TRADITIONAL+021112 %LAWS RULES REGULATIONS COMMANDMENTS ATTENTION LOVE+021112 %OWNERS DESIRES HOPES ASPIRATIONS FEARS ANXIETIES+021112 %VISIONS INSPIRATIONS INTERESTS SPECIAL INTERESTS+021112 %QUESTION UTILITY DOMINANT CONTROLLERS VULNERABLE+021112 %COLLUSIONS ADDICTIONS CODEPENDENT SUPPORTERS SIN 021112 Why is it that many domineering people focus almost exclusively upon traditional laws, rules, regulations, commandments, etc. --- and rarely grant much attention to people's own: desires, hopes, aspirations, fears, experiences, anxieties, visions, inspirations, interests, etc? Might it be that laws, rules, regulations, commandments, etc. are far more useful as means by which to dominate/control people --- than are people's own: desires, hopes, aspirations, fears, experiences, anxieties, visions, inspirations, interests, etc? The latter cannot be truly manipulated or controlled; whereas the former can be manipulated and controlled. It is a question of utility within efforts to be- dominant and in-control. Many domineering people are pragmatic and looking for tools which can be used/abused in dominating and controlling vulnerable people to the advantage of the domineering people. Dishonesty is very useful and is used to conceal the motivations and methods of the domineering people --- with the pretense that the domineering people are working to promote legitimate law-and-order in the face of improper threats to law-and-order. Anybody who truly wants to facilitate and promote authenticity, personal integrity and communal integrity can do so only within the context of dealing honestly with the above realities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================