This is http://www.essayz.com/b0804291.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %MISLEADING MASKS CLOAKS DOMINEERING BULLIES HIDE 080429 %UN-WINNABLE COLLUSIVE GAME MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION 080429 Masks-and-Cloaks are made in many Misleading-Ways by the use and abuse of many different kinds of Techniques-and- Technologies --- By-Technocratic Domineering-Bullies --- to achieve diverse purposes such as: 1. To Obscure, Confuse, Make-Impossible, and/or Make- Invisible the realities of some: Person, Relationship, Tragedy, Taboo, or Other-Alienative-Process. 2. To make many True-Authentic-Realities to appear to be totally other than what they really are. 3. To make that which threatens the civility and all civilization --- to appear to be essential and totally acceptable WITHOUT-QUESTION --- serving to concentrate wealth, luxuries, power and influence into the hands of a few Domineering-Bullies --- at the expense of the many people whose essential humane needs are not being fulfilled. 4. To make what is truly-impossible --- appear to be possible and/or inevitable/unavoidable. 5. To make what is possible, inevitable and/or unavoidable --- appear to be impossible and/or absolutely taboo --- within the playing of collusive-games-of-mutual- self-deception --- which nobody can win with any integrity. 6. To make what is simple as an essential foundation for Personal-and-Communal Integrations-and-Integrities --- to appear complex, mysterious and an ultimate threat to all isolated Good-People and to all of their Isolated-Good- Works and their Isolated-Good-Achievements. 7. To make the Masks, Cloaks and related Technologies be invisible and beyond discernment. The creation and use of Masks, Cloaks and related Technologies often involve the creation and use of: (a) Alienative Economic-Systems which destroy communities as described in the book "THE DISMAL SCIENCE" about "How thinking like an economist destroys community" by Stephen A. Marglin, published by Harvard University Press in 2008. (b) THE POWERS THAT BE as described by Walter Wink in his powerful little book based on the his award winning powers trilogy which has unmasked the Alienative Powers-That-Be --- in control of endless concentrations of powers and wealth --- while alienating the vast majority of the people in God's tiny Space-Ship-Earth circling one tiny star in God's VAST COSMOS. (c) 1998 by Augsburg Fortress. (c) Military-Industrial-Complexes as described by President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation which he served with highly regarded distinction. (d) Powerful-Corporations which intimidate Powerful- Nations while protecting themselves as if they were vulnerable individual-persons with all of the rights guaranteed to vulnerable individual-persons. (e) Psychological, religious, theological, economic, taxation, sociological, and advertising --- TOOLS --- to create wants and apparent-needs in the service of concentrating unlimited powers and wealth into the hands of Domineering-Bullies who conceal their real-natures from their victims and supporters alike. Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ==========================================================