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- in fact, the abject failure of such attempts at control which prevented the earlier release which ‘might have defused the explosion of the SLA. Control for these anary people is the cause of their anger. Their searc - for freedom is the search for release from their ‘own tryannically ay controls. The social order must offer something other than immolation as release from that control. In essence, we must find ways to tolerate the little daily violences which threaten to destroy us. | ' Patricia represents everyman. So Jong as we perceive ourselves to be among the ranks of the powerful, the “ruling class", secure in our certainty that we can express our hostility without fear of retribution, we control that hostility. If any of us were to lose that sense of power,. _ the anger, the resentment all of us carry about would spill into violent behavior. Perhaps the point may be clarified by an analogy. Experienced and knowledgeable computer programners uniformly seek out and learn how one might destroy the computers with which they work. Within the progran- mers armamentarium there is the knowledge of. those commands which wil] erase core, crash the system and bomb the software. This knowledge gives the programmer power over the device he uses. That power in turn controls the need_to use the power to destroy the tool which serves him and which , he serves. Those without such power are much more likely to perceive their“relationship to the machine as one of Only servant. They in turn, may seek to fraudulently steal power from those they recognize as having power by holding those with power hostage totheir will under threat of harm, Thus the bank president, the diplomat, the industrialist, the erred. vent newspaper editor, or those close to them who may be assumed to hold some secondary power over them are the targets of those without the power which controls their anger. Our pressing social problem is not how to