Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you find yourself regularly engaged in melodramatic interactions with others?
*Do you worry about your future &/or the future of friends or family members?
*Do you regularly use the words “should”, “must” or “have to”?
*Do you regularly gossip about co-workers, classmates or other associates?
*Do you believe that life is essentially unfair?
*Do you regularly complain about domestic politics or the state of the world?
*Do you use the words “can’t”, “impossible”, “crazy” or “would”?
*Do you believe that life demands a “healthy balance” between times of joy & times of
sorrow, between moments of success & moments of failure, or between being treated
well by others & being treated poorly by them?
*Do you believe that “evil” & “injustice” & poverty are simply innate facets of “the way
things are”?
*Do you feel powerless – or at least a bit daunted – by the thought of “battling” the 36
addictions mentioned in the articles of this series? Do you possibly think it is impossible
to effectively do so?
As a human being living in a global industrial society that actively encourages us to feel
powerless, the chances are quite high that you answered “yes” to more than few of these
queries. If you did, fear not, for to do so in no way makes you “weak” or “inferior” or
“less than”. You are simply a human being – a member of a young species in a relatively
young stage of its sociological development; an individual still subconsciously (and
sometimes consciously) steeped in fear; a member of a species still drenched in
competition & conflict, still teetering on the precarious brink between transcendence &
disaster. As such, it is perfectly reasonable for you to feel at least a bit helpless in times
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