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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9207281.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.} ========================================================== %COMMUNITY LEADER POWER CONTROL ADDICT DICTATOR WAR 920728 When through election, evolution, or military take- over the governmental powers in a family, organization, religion, institution, city, state or nation falls into the hands of a collection of addictive persons who are preoccupied with being in control, with who is in control, and with how to maintain control; then the people are prone to be dominated by a dictatorial rule which is either brutally overt---or subtly covert. In overt dictatorships there is at least honesty about the use of violent force to retain power for self-serving purposes. In paternalistic dictatorships there is an attempt to justify the dictatorship in terms of benevolent purposes. In both instances there is an acknowledged dictatorship; and there is no pretense of democratic rule. When a "democratic" society has become an addict there may be no attempt to justify the dictatorship; because by means of collusive games of mutual self deception none of the people with power acknowledge that there is a dictatorship. In such situations many of the citizens play complementary collusive games of codependence which are on the flip side of the coin of the collusive games of addiction. Addictive people cannot be trusted because they take for granted that dishonesty is a legitimate tool to be used in gaining and retaining control. Addictive people should not be trusted with governmental authority, for they are likely to seek to acquire and retain more and more power to control; and move toward dictatorial rule in covert moves which not even they fully recognize. Codependent people cannot be trusted because they buy into the collusive games of mutual self deception which addictive people are playing; to try to benefit from the power which they see addicts as able to bestow upon subservient supporters. Codependent people play supportive roles to addictive people as they gain power to govern and dictate, in their moves toward an overt or covert dictatorship. Addictive people and codependent people cannot be trusted with governmental authority because they play their collusive games on the two sides of one coin; the coin of addiction/codependence. They need each other to survive; at least temporarily. Their side of the coin is incomplete without the game being played on the opposite side. The games played on both sides conceal the nature of the games played on both sides; for dishonesty is the essence of the games. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================