This quote brought to mind these words I wrote while Gorge Bush was in power. I wished he had kept on drinking and never changed his addictions. It probably would have prevented the war with Iraq.
The President of the United States (George Bush) in an interview admitted to having had a drinking problem, and one day he just stopped drinking - that he let Jesus Christ inside him and became a Christian. Addicts don’t just stop! They change addictions! His new addictions are religion, power, and money. Just because his new addictions are more accepted by our society it does not make it any better. Addiction greed, and obsessions, are all the same thing. Greed, obsessions or addiction means that whatever the object of our affection is, we can never get enough of it. Addicts live in constant fear of losing the object of their affection and go to any lengths to protect it. They will lie, cheat, steal, go to war without thinking twice, and exploit others even their own children. No wonder so many young people are so angry; for when we feel used and exploited we get angry. Only addicts will elect and support an addict to be our leader. This means there are a lot of addictive or greedy people in our society!!!
What is addiction really?
“Recovery From Self-Betrayal: What is addiction really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
The drug business would not flourish if there were not so many people who, in refusing to acknowledge their wounds, are in a permanent state of self-betrayal.
Thus, people work to get rid of symptoms instead of searching out the cause.
There are plenty of means to combat symptoms of distress: medications, sermons, numerous "treatments," "miracles," threats, cults, pedagogical indoctrination and even blackmail.
They can all work for a while, but only because they reinforce the repression and reinforce the fear of resolving it.
However, many people who become abstinent this way are driven into another addiction because the real reasons for becoming addicted must be kept hidden.
A lot of money and fame comes from this business of repression because it satisfies the longing of so many grown-up children: to be loved as a good child (I am blind as you want me to be. I am ready to forget all your cruelty, even at the cost of my life. Can you love me now?).
In the long term, we have to pay a high price for this repression. The repressed story continues to try, again and again, to be heard at long last. Thus your plight will look for other symptoms, another language, until it is taken seriously enough. An addiction is an attempt by a person in despair, who is not allowed to be in despair, to get rid of his or her memory, to forget his or her plight.
Of course, this "solution" is no longer needed if the goal is exactly the opposite, if you want to remember, if you want to feel your plight and to understand its reasons, if you slowly become aware of why you were so afraid of acknowledging the reasons.
This can happen once you decide to stop running away, to stop betraying yourself, to allow the truth to enter your consciousness.
You decide to do so because you finally understand that everything else is useless and because you no longer want to watch your life go by before having even begun to live. You decide to stop betraying yourself because you understand that only you can give yourself the love and care you never received and that you can't do that as long as you deny the truth.” Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence: The Liberating Experience Of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller, page 126
The drug business would not flourish if there were not so many people who, in refusing to acknowledge their wounds, are in a permanent state of self-betrayal.
Thus, people work to get rid of symptoms instead of searching out the cause.
There are plenty of means to combat symptoms of distress: medications, sermons, numerous "treatments," "miracles," threats, cults, pedagogical indoctrination and even blackmail.
They can all work for a while, but only because they reinforce the repression and reinforce the fear of resolving it.
However, many people who become abstinent this way are driven into another addiction because the real reasons for becoming addicted must be kept hidden.
A lot of money and fame comes from this business of repression because it satisfies the longing of so many grown-up children: to be loved as a good child (I am blind as you want me to be. I am ready to forget all your cruelty, even at the cost of my life. Can you love me now?).
In the long term, we have to pay a high price for this repression. The repressed story continues to try, again and again, to be heard at long last. Thus your plight will look for other symptoms, another language, until it is taken seriously enough. An addiction is an attempt by a person in despair, who is not allowed to be in despair, to get rid of his or her memory, to forget his or her plight.
Of course, this "solution" is no longer needed if the goal is exactly the opposite, if you want to remember, if you want to feel your plight and to understand its reasons, if you slowly become aware of why you were so afraid of acknowledging the reasons.
This can happen once you decide to stop running away, to stop betraying yourself, to allow the truth to enter your consciousness.
You decide to do so because you finally understand that everything else is useless and because you no longer want to watch your life go by before having even begun to live. You decide to stop betraying yourself because you understand that only you can give yourself the love and care you never received and that you can't do that as long as you deny the truth.” Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence: The Liberating Experience Of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller, page 126
Facebook post about greed
Monica: Dancing on the titanic?
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilization headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
Sylvie Imelda Shene: Those in power don't care about future generations. They just care about keeping their power and collecting more money. That's why the sociopaths at my last job tried to destroy me because my book exposes their lies, facades, and evil nature. I have very little hope for humanity. "While some members of society might raise the alarm that the system is moving towards an impending collapse and therefore advocate structural changes to society in order to avoid it, Elites and their supporters, who opposed making these changes, could point to the long sustainable trajectory 'so far in support of doing nothing."
Monica Chelagat: Social injustice by sociopaths leaders, was and will be the cause of the collapse. The greed they live in is no different from a heroin addict.
Hamed Oubeid: Greed! The bloody greed and short-term gains ...
Sylvie Imelda Shene: The sociopaths of the world and their enablers that choose to believe their lies and look the other way and support them will be the cause of the collapse. They are worse than heroin addicts because they destroy everything and heroin addicts destroy just themselves.
Addiction and greed are the same things. Greed or addiction means that whatever the object of our affection is, we can never get enough of it. Addicts live in constant fear of losing the object of their affection and go to any lengths to protect it. They will lie, cheat, steal, go to war without thinking twice, and exploit others even their own children. No wonder so many young people are so angry; for when we feel used and exploited we get angry.
Monica Chelagat: I have seen greedy people in my workplace, greedy for career and money at any cost. They are the worst species! They will trample on anyone without thinking twice! They are damaged beyond repair.
Sylvie Imelda Shene: Yes, they are the worst species, because they don't care about anyone, but keep feeding their addictions or pacifier that protects them from having to face and feel their own painful truths and keeps their repressed feelings at bay. They will destroy anyone that gets in the way of their pacifiers.
Hamed Oubeid: I wish I knew this 30 or 40 years ago. When I studied psycho-sociology a bit, this was not known. But I recall now meeting pervert narcissists in my long career. The way I had is to confront them and show no fear. Sometimes, I just avoid them by keeping them at bay. This behavior is also common among African supervisors and I always put it under the culture of poverty, that is, someone coming from a relatively poor background, climbs the ladder in an institution and wants to be the chief among people much more clever than him. We were calling him the Mandingo Prince in his back and he never realized that no one was taking him seriously. Well, he lost a lucrative career because his behavior caught up with him.
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