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Enabling
NMB, Florida January 7, 2002 A.H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published Now and
Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
ENABLING
You and I are enablers. A few of us who have been through some
psychological counseling have learned about the term and the process. We
have a member of the family or a close friend who is troubled and we step in
to help - but all we do is enable a needy person to be more helpless. We do
not know how to handle the problem and the troubled one is adept at
enlisting our aid to contribute to maintaining the troubled condition
through enabling it and him to continue being sick or troubled. You and I
allow ourselves to be manipulated by a sick personality because it is easier
to go along with him and support him in his sickness.
You and I are enablers. We enable the people who are traffickers in the
worst kinds of products to continue to foist them off onto us. They are
there to service our needs but they turn it around and we then service THEIR
needs. We constitute a pool of potential buyers from whom they choose their
victims. We buy from them or ignore them but do not drive them away. We
enable their pursuit of our dollars by tolerating them. We are unpatriotic
if we do not participate.
You and I are enablers. We accept poor treatment by people we elect to
provide us with services. After they come to power they do as they please
and we let them. We enable their potential to do bad things because we
think we are powerless and they are the powerful. It turns out that way
because we enable their pronouncements and listen to their interpreters and
accept what they say. We enable poor government because we do not really
believe we are the government. We THINK we are represented. We think we are
helpless and the enabled enable us in that belief.
You and I are enablers. We are engulfed with tremendous piles of trash
that is supposed to be entertainment. We enable this to continue because we
are trained to think there are no alternatives. We have just lost South
Florida's only classical music station and the letters in protest were few.
When we reviewed the new format we turned the dial to another nothing
station or turned it off. We hummed to ourselves rather than listen to
trash that children and adolescents pay for. You and I are enablers.
Carol's Evaluation:10 out of 10.
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