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 %ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS SIGNS ASPECTS DESENSITIZE 041222
%INDIFFERENCE POWERFUL WEALTHY ABSENCE DISTRIBUTIVE 041222
%JUSTICE FAIRNESS HUMILITY CIVILITY HOSPITALITY GOD 041222
  %HONESTY GENEROSITY BALANCE MUTUALITY COOPERATION 041222
%COLLABORATION HOPE JOY TOLERANT KIND GENTLE REVERE 041222
 %CONSUMPTION CAPITALISM ENOUGH MORE CONCENTRATIONS 041222

     It has been noted that "Power corrupts,  and absolute
power corrupts absolutely."  What are the signs/aspects of
"corruption".  The following are suggestive:

     1.  DESENSITIZATION  of the powerful to the plight of
the powerless,  weak, vulnerable, thirsty, hungry,  naked,
homeless, ignorant, mentally-ill, etc.

     2.  INDIFFERENCE  of the powerful and wealthy  toward
the absence of distributive-justice.

     3.  INDIFFERENCE  of the powerful and wealthy toward
the ABSENCE of:  humility, civility, hospitality, honesty,
generosity, balance, mutuality, cooperation, colaboration,
hope,  joy,  tolerance, kindness,  gentleness,  reverence,
integrities,   integrations,  sanctuaries,   intelligence,
spirit,   reflexive-relationships,   prayer,   meditation,
poetry,  song, dance, intimacy,  friendships,  relaxation,
healing,  hospitals, schools,  research,  experimentation,
exploration, etc.

     4.  INDIFFERENCE  of the powerful and wealthy toward
the  OPPRESSIVE PRESENCE OF:  arrogance,  contentiousness,
greed,   pretensions,  collusions,  hoarding,   extremism,
unilateral-behaviors, domination, addictions, competition,
battles,   attacks,   despair,  depression,   intolerance,
meanness,   coercion,  violence,  hubris,   polarizations,
dichotomizations,    terror,    terrorisim,    terrorists,
ignorance,  prejudice,  bias, absolute-demands,  absolute-
commands, narrow-specializations, exclusivities, mutually-
exclusive-ideals-and-values,       total-objectifications,
technocracies,  compulsive-concerns, alienation, estrange-
ments,   excommunications,   animosities,     workaholics,
militarism,    military-industrial-complexes,    mutually-
assured-destruction-threats, fanaticism, etc.

     5.  The ABSENCE of respect for and defense of  humane
rights  as  defined  in  prudent  constitutions  and   the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

     6.  PREOCCUPATIONS with: security defined in terms of
invulnerability,  being superior, being best, having more-
than-enough, polarizations, dichotomizations, who-is-good,
who-is-evil,  who-is-superior, who-is-rejectable,  who-is-
acceptable, etc.

     7.  The  powerful and wealthy being willing and  able
with  impunity to SACRIFICE the essential foundations  for
personal  and  communal  integrations and  integrities  to
accumulate   more   wealth,   power,   and  security   for
themselves.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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