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Catwoman · 06-09-2004, 06:21 AM

Have been thinking a lot lately about the human desire to control our experience - to manufacture situations to fit with existing schemas and how our pysche collapses when we cannot control our surroundings, esp. other people. You see it in crime and politics (not mutually exclusive) every day. It seems every subsequent movement resulting from a failure to adequately dictate a situation is an attempt to recreate or resolve the previous unfavourable situation. Why can't we break out of this cycle?

06-09-2004, 06:21 AM	#1
Catwoman stalking a Tom Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: on the edge of the english channel Posts: 1,000	Control Have been thinking a lot lately about the human desire to control our experience - to manufacture situations to fit with existing schemas and how our pysche collapses when we cannot control our surroundings, esp. other people. You see it in crime and politics (not mutually exclusive) every day. It seems every subsequent movement resulting from a failure to adequately dictate a situation is an attempt to recreate or resolve the previous unfavourable situation. Why can't we break out of this cycle? __________________ I've decided I'm not going to have a signature anymore.