Control Culture

“Our culture does not respect people who do not take control.

We each have our own inner program for happiness, our plans by which we can be secure, esteemed, and in control, and are blissfully unaware that these cannot work for us for the long haul—without our becoming control freaks ourselves. Something has to break our primary addiction, which is to our own power and our false programs for happiness. Here is the insidious cycle of the ego “I want to have power”> “I will take control”> “I will always be right”> “see, I am indeed powerful!” This is the vicious circle of the will to power. It does not create happy people, nor draw happy people to us.”

Richard Roar