RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS Individual-Domineering-Bullies-in-Isolation seek to form "personal-relationships" with individuals who are vulnerable and willing to be submissive in return for "protection", "respect" and/or "support"; e.g., in Addictive- Codependent-Relationships - - - with addicts whose foci of addiction are: alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, other-drugs, work, sexual-adventures, "special-persons", "special-intimacies", money, power, wealth, luxuries, shop-lifting, gambling, great-risk-taking, Absolute-Truth, Religious-Dogmas, Religious-Rituals, Political-Controls, etc. If the "available" individuals are not willing to be "submissive" in return for "protection", "respect" and/or Support"; and there are few True-Lovers in the community who are willing to be responsive as True-Lovers in healthy, mutually-balanced, well-integrated and collaborative-long-term-sustainable-personal-relationships - - - the community faces major dilemmas and threats to the communal integrity! Domineering-Bullies may form: tribes, gangs and coalitions to support their alienative-life-styles by shutting out True-Lovers who are vulnerable and in need of "protection" and/or "support" - - - but who hesitate to be intentionally submissive and vulnerable with any kind of Un-Kind-Domineering-Bullies; and especially not with members of any Gang-of-Domineering-Bullies who have Ganged-Up-in-Coalitions to Shut-Out "Pretentious" True-Lovers who refuse to be submissively-vulnerable-and-compliant to the demands of UnKind-Domineering-Bullies and/or Mobbing-Mobsters. In response to the True-Lovers who are unwilling to be submissively-compliant; the Tragically-Alienative- Domineering-Bullies are prone to expand their gangs and to generate more demanding forms and patterns of: Distributive-Injustice, Domination, Controls, Prejudices, Biases, Alienative-Conflicts, Segregation, Slavery, etc. which disintegrate all kinds of: Kindness, Open-and-Honest-Dialogues, Civility, Cooperation, Colaboration, Mutuality, Personal-Integrity, Communal Integrity, Integrative-Processes and Security-Within-Shalom's Many-Different-Creative-Gracious-Ways. We-are-likely to-be-unable to-do-much to help-each-other to Graciously-Understand-and-Mitigate the Dynamics- of Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - if we are indifferent-to, uninformed-about, and have little in the way of Mutual-Understanding about - - - the Many-Forms-of-AUGMENTATIONs of Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts. The Essential-Forms-of-Mitigation - - - have to do with Mitigating the above Many-Tragic-Forms-of-AUGMENTATION! If we do not recognize, acknowledge, describe and engage in Open-and-Honest-Dialogue about the Many-Forms-of- Tragic-AUGMENTATION of OUR-OWN- Alienative-Conflicts - - - we Have-No-Ground For-Hope in any efforts to Mitigate - - - That-Which-Is-Unknown-and-Not-Understood by US! We cannot Mitigate that which we do NOT: Recognize, Acknowledge, Describe or Talk-About - - - in Open-and-Honest- Dialogue Within OUR-OWN Daily-Lives! We cannot Mitigate OUR-OWN Alienative-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception - - - which we refuse to: Recognize, Acknowledge, Describe or Talk-About - - - in Open-and-Honest-Dialogue Within OUR-OWN Daily-Lives! We cannot Mitigate the Roots-of-our-Tragedies which we Pretend-Do-Not-Exist; and about which ROOTS we show no curiosity; and Never-Seek-To-Find those Roots! We cannot Mitigate the Alienative-Behaviors Generated-By OUR-OWN Most-Tragic-Enemies' OWN: Ideals, Values, Principles, Goals, Hopes, and Aspirations - - - so long as we: Embrace, Affirm and Embody THOSE-VERY-SAME: Ideals, Values, Principles, Goals, Hopes and Aspirations - - - along with their Associated Alienative-Technologies; and Always-Refuse To-Let-Go Of-Them - WITHIN our efforts to DEFEAT-OUR-OWN-ENEMIES and OUR-OWN-EVIL-PEOPLE when we use our SUPERIOR-ALIENATIVE-TECHNOLOGIES which we regard as MORE-POWERFUL THAN-THEIR-PRIMITIVE-TECHNOLOGIES. We cannot Mitigate-Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts so long as we cannot engage in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about texts that deal with the above suggested roots of OUR OWN tragedies!