Often this neutralization takes the form of fabricated personality conflicts that allow the truth put forth by the change agent to be discounted. Values and ethics are the ultimate victims of an addictive organization. With this definition, there is much evil in organizations. Addictive organizations don't learn things that advance their growth. The addictive system is a forgetful and nonlearning system with a selective and distorted memory.
Addicts learn only about how to protect their addictions.
Perhaps our primary addictions are to nonliving, helplessness, and powerlessness. Our addictions will worsen until we reconnect with others, nature, and ourselves. Recovery requires a commitment to seeing the world and ourselves as we are and an intense desire to become who we can be. Recovery requires many moments of metanoia as we bring forth a new worldview and heightened consciousness. Transformation restores people to health, wholeness, and a more natural way of being.