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DWINDLING SPIRAL OF CONTROL
DWINDLING SPIRAL OF CONTROL
ScnAdmin
one must be willing to
leave
certain parts of the
world
uncontrolled. If he cannot, he rapidly
drops
downscale
and gets into a
situation
where he is
obsessively
attempting to
control
things which he never will be able to
control
and thus renders himself unhappy, begins to
doubt
his
ability
to
control
those things which he actually should be able to
control
and so at length loses his
ability
to
control
anything. And this, in essence, is what in
Scn
we call the
dwindling spiral
of
control
.
(
POW
, p. 64)