1. Contestants seek to control: appearances, communications, analyses, research, advertisements,
news, reports, testimony, etc.

 2. Contestants seek to: prevail, dominate, control, manage and be in charge of each other's: 
behaviors, responses and resentments.

 3. The above behaviors generate: resentments, anger, suspicions, distrust, reactions, revenge,
--- and many more elements which generate alienation.

 4. None of the primary elements of conflicts lead naturally toward: reconciliation, cooperation,
generosity, hospitality, etc.

Given the above sad facts of life --- it is essential that we be intentional in cooperating with
each other to mitigate our natural human tendencies in the direction of alienation --- tendencies
which augment each other in tragic-ways that obscure-each-other and obscure-the-ways-to-mitigate 
all-of-the-Alienative-Conflicts.

                         (c) 2009 by Paul A. Smith in      
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