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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9010251.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 SIGNIFICANCE MEANING ACTION SYMBOL BEHAVE 901025 It is futile for anybody to try to control the significance of other people's decisions, actions, and symbolic behavior. The significance and meaning of people's decisions, action and symbolic behavior rests as much in the process of perception, as in that which is perceived. Perception cannot be controlled. Those who try to control other people's perception are themselves likely to be perceived as manipulators; they are not likely to effectively control other people's perceptions. Attempts to control people's perceptions are disintegrative; i.e., the attempts lead to alienation between those people trying to be in control of perceptions, and those people whose perceptions the manipulators try to control. People who are trying to control other people's perception are often seeking to achieve acceptability and high self-esteem. As manipulators they tend to achieve the opposite of what they really want. Manipulators are not truly perceived as being worthy of acceptance on their own terms. They alienate themselves, when what they want is to enjoy the benefits of being members of an authentic community. Yet they do not understand the dynamics of the realities of authentic communities or the nature of joy. They believe that manipulation and control can play central roles in achieving what they think they want. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================