This is http://www.essayz.com/b0506083.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.} ========================================================== %OUR GOOD DOMINATION SYSTEM GOD FUNDAMENTAL STANDS 050608 %GREED DISHONEST PREJUDICE POWER CONCENTRATION SINS 050608 %WEALTH SUCCESS VIOLENCE EXTREMISM TERROR SUCCESS 050608 %BIAS SELF EGO RIGHTEOUS ARROGANCE HUBRIS MYTH BOMB 050608 %REDEMPTIVE SALVATION RESCUE ADDICT CODEPEND COLLUD 050608 %TECHNOCRAT SCIENCE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SEX 050608 These truths are self evident: Personal and communal integrity are undermined and avoided by domineering people who are in the service of our "Good Domination System". This is because; when domination is OUR god, nothing may stand between US and getting what WE want; so OUR OWN: 1. Greed-is-good, even if alienative! 2. Dishonesty is good, even if alienative! 3. Prejudice is good, even if alienative! 4. Power-concentration is good, even if alienative! 5. Wealth-concentration is good, even if alienative! 6. Health-concentration is good, even if alienative! 7. Coercion is good, even if alienative! 8. Violence is good, even if alienative! 9. Extremism is good, even if alienative! 10. Terrorism is good, even if alienative! 11. Success is good, even if alienative! 12. Bias is good, even if alienative! 13. Self-righteousness is good, even if alienative! 14. Arrogance and hubris are good, even if alienative! 15. Myths are good, even if alienative! 16. Bombs are good, even if alienative! 17. Technologies are very good, even if alienative! 18. Technocrats are very good, even if alienative! 19. Militarism is very good, even if alienative! 20. Fundamental beliefs are good, even if alienative! 21. Fundamental doctrines are good, even if alienative! 22. Religiosity is good, even if alienative! 23. Sexual hang-ups are good, even if alienative! 24. Repressions are good, even if alienative! 25. Suppressions are good, even if alienative! 26. Taboos are good, even if alienative! 27. Isolationism is good, even if alienative! 28. Oxymorons are good, even if alienative! 29. Ignorance is good, even if alienative! 30. Provincialisms are good, even if alienative! 31. Distributive injustice is good, even if alienative! 32. Retributive injustice is good, even if alienative! 33. Prisons are good, even if alienative! 34. Punishments are all good, even if alienative! 35. Exclusivity is good, even if alienative! 36. Rejections are all good, even if alienative! 37. Excommunications are good, even if alienative! 38. Assured destructions are good, even if alienative! 39. Actions are good, even if alienative! 40. Narcissims is good, even if alienative! 41. Imbalance is good, even if alienative! 42. Dis-ease is good, even if alienative! 43. Animosity is good, even if alienative! 44. Contentiousness is good, even if alienative! 45. Compulsive negativity is good, even if alienative! 46. Perpetual busyness is good, even if alienative! 47. Capitalism is good, even if alienative! 48. Corporations are good, even if alienative! 49. Invulnerability is good, even if alienative! 50. Domination is good, even if alienative! 51. Chosen god is good, even if alienative! Considerations of alienation must not stand in the way of our getting what we want, covet, desire, need, etc! Our god is great! We chose him! Long live our god! ------------------------- It is difficult for True Lovers to deal effectively with the disintegrative fruits of the above suggested Frame-of-Mind, so long as: 1. Well defined forms of mental illness are NOT recognized, diagnosed and treated through integrative communal efforts which are designed to protect and enhance the health of the whole community. 2. Health-Care is regarded as primarily the realm for individual responsibility and corporate initiatives, which are guided and motivated by personal profit motives. 3. Most people fail to recognize the differences between local/isolated problems and tragedies; and wide- spread systemic problems and tragedies --- which are propagated by pervasive systems that transcend isolated individuals, neighborhoods, localities, etc. 4. Most people fail to recognize and understand the nature of corrupt: religions, scribes, political-leaders, theologians, governments, corporations, capitalists, military-industrial-complexes, etc. ------------------------- To resolve Systemic-Problems we must respond in Honest-Systemic Ways which transcend our patterns of alienation, estrangement, isolation, mental-diseases, etc. To protect our personal and communal integrities we must as Whole-Communities recognize patterns of communal disintegration which entail personal disintegration --- and respond to those patterns as Whole-Communities; i.e., with both communal and personal integrities. "Systemic-Problems" and "Systemic-Dilemmas" cannot be transcended, resolved or solved without dealing with their roots --- which transcend isolated lives of individuals, couples and families in isolation. "Systemic-Problems" and "Systemic-Dilemmas" are rooted in realities such as: 0. Extended family networks and tribes. 1. Educational systems. 2. Religious institutions. 3. Political institutions. 4. Governmental institutions. 5. Corporations. 6. Legal systems. 7. Cities, Counties, Provinces. 8. States, Nations, and International Treaties. 9. Libraries and information-storage/retrieval systems. 10. Mythologies, cosmologies, and paradigms. 11. Professional organizations and unions. 12. Standing-Armies 13. Military-Industrial-Complexes. When many people are involved in dealing with human problems and dilemmas --- their may be "Systemic-Problems" and "Systemic-Dilemmas" which flow from inadequacies in the communal efforts. Such inadequacies cannot be resolved by isolated individual efforts, no matter how creative those isolated individual efforts may be, and no matter how powerful those isolated individuals may be. "Systemic-Problems" and "Systemic-Dilemmas" can be transcended, resolved, or solved in the absence of adequate communal efforts which entail: open-and-honest- dialogue, cooperation, collaboration, hospitality, civility and many other communal virtues. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================