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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8704142.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.} ========================================================== %CONTROL OF POWER POLITICS 870414 People who believe it is important to be in control engage in contests over who will control whom and what. Some people believe that it is progressive to broaden the base of the group of people who have power to be in control; e.g., to include more women, blacks, and ethnics minorities who have traditionally had little power to control. The problem is, the more people who have the power to be in control the more often there will be conflicts among them about the exercise of their power to control. Conflict will not be resolved by increasing the number of people who believe it is important to be in control and who share in the benefits of being in control. To resolve conflicts people must be helped to transcend the belief that it is important to be in control, and transcend the belief that self-esteem should depend upon the power to control. Ways need to be found to reduce the respect accorded to people who exercise control over others; respecting them encourages them in their belief that it is important to exercise control. Seeking to please them as a way of gaining advantage from them by virtue of the power of control which they exercise---will encourage them in their belief that it is important to be in control. They need to recognize that healthy people are respected for their promotion of personal and communal integrity, rather than because they exercise disintegrative control over others. It is futile to try to gain control of those who engaged in disintegrative behavior by trying to be in control. To try to gain control of their behavior is to surrender to the rules of their game, and so to lose the transcendent positive sum game of promoting personal and communal integrity. The negative sum game of control is the game of addiction to the various presumed means of achieving control. It is a collusive game of mutual self deception about the importance of the use of chosen means and technologies. The technical sophistication and potentialities for destructive use of such means is not grounds for respecting them as means to achieve control over those who are inferior to oneself. Only people who lack self esteem need to have people be inferior to themselves, and/or be controlled by superior self appointed caretakers. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================