1. One's Ego, or SuperEgo, is encouraged to dominate decision-making.

2. Avoidance of self-responsibility is facilitated by addictive behaviors.

3. Pride, selfishness and intolerance come with use of power for self gain.

4. Food practices often become lazy, extravagant, wasteful, and unhealthy.

5. Acceptance by others (status quo) becomes a justification for one's actions.

6. Communication often becomes passive (to receive) or aggressive (to take).

7. Drugs, food, and material comfort become short-term anxiety antidotes.

8. Dependency develops through one's reliance on others to do
   

   - what one is too proud to do;

   - what one is too lazy to learn how to do;

   - what one is too ignorant and restrained by others from doing;

   - what one chooses to pay/reward others to do for oneself.

9. False security and contrived relationships encourage moral blindness.

10. Self-importance, greed and potential for loss demand control by over-involvement.

11. Automated transportation and entertainment reduces one's experiences.

12. Self-exclusion from the reality of the masses encourages intolerance.

13. The novelty of mass media provides a constant distraction from reality

14. Endless acquaintances seek your attention, time, money, influence.

15. Use of space is often extravagant, (artistic) impractical, wasteful.

16. Nutrition becomes less important than social acceptance: "fast" "junk" food.

17. People who envy you try to take from you or manipulate you into sharing.

18. Credit, and debt, are easy to accumulate, rationalize, and use irresponsibly.

19. Family and friends become secondary to mass acceptance and power.

20. Superstition attaches future material success to past attitudes, behaviors, and rigidity of response and options.