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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9302011.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.} ========================================================== %ROOT ADDICT RESPECT DESIRE COVET POWER CONTROL 930201 The roots of addictions are woven tightly into the fabric of the society which has become systemically addictive. In such a society the young people are taught in systemic ways to respect, desire, covet, seek and bond to the power to be in control. Young people are taught to tie their self-respect to their attainment of such power. Pride is tied to winning, getting to the top, being the best, achieving perfection, not making mistakes. The people who are respected are the people who appear to be in control. People who do not appear to be in control of some things, possessions, persons, or processes are not respected. Love and security are not gifts; they are possessions to be achieved, earned, paid for, etc. The high costs of addictive behaviors cannot be reduced by any war on drugs because the war-like behaviors of such wars are themselves addictive behaviors. Such wars are addictive attempts to control what cannot be controlled. People who covet the power to be in control seek only to appear to wage such wars against addictions which are rooted in the coveting of the power to control what cannot be controlled. The whole process lacks personal and communal integrity! To deal wisely with addictions and supportive codependents we need to understand the nature of the roots of addiction. In an addictive society the young people are taught in systemic ways to respect, desire, covet and seek the power to appear to be in control. The overt forms of addiction are but manifestations of the ideas and values which are woven into the fabric of the society in terms of what young people are taught to respect, desire, covet, seek and bond to. The overt disintegrative manifestations cannot be eliminated without dealing honestly with that of which they are manifestations. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================