How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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when such a worrying ogress lives in the same house with you. The family, Elizabeth’s sole kingdom and interest, is compelled by her worry to remain close beside her— and in this way Elizabeth stills her childish fear that she will be deserted. This fear, moreover, is also a fear that it will be no simple matter to dominate other people as easily as she dominates her family with the tried and trusted device to which its members have responded after years of Elizabeth’s dictatorially imposed training. If any member dares to launch some independent activity which puts him beyond the charmed circle of Elizabeth’s over-solicitude, she promptly recalls him by staging a scene of panic. The very vagueness of her fears makes any logical or common-sense reassurance unavailing. There is no logical argument that can convince a woman who spends her days being affaid of cancer or of death that her fears are groundless, because these fears serve only her “ private ” logic and her “ private ” philosophy of life. Thus worry, commonly believed evidence of a friendly or loving solicitude, unmasks itself, when translated into psychological language, as an effective device to narrow the world to an unimportant side-show, and impose a tyranny of love and a domina¬ tion of solicitude on those who neither need nor desire such care, while the individual who worries becomes, in her or his own opinion, a saintly and exceptionally considerate fellow-man. Analysis of Jealousy Jealousy, which is almost as common as worry, deserves further psychological analysis because there are few traits which have such unpleasant consequences. Jealousy is considered an inborn disposition by the vast majority of human beings, but the most superficial glance at its effects will serve to dispel this fallacy, and show that jealousy is a logical and rational tool, unconsciously acquired for the enslavement of another human being.