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     Each person  has  only  so much time  and  energy  to
direct  and invest.   There are more values which we might
each affirm than we have time and  energy to affirm.    We
each  experience a sense of frustration upon declining  to
affirm (in practical terms)  values which we recognize  as
appropriate  for our affirmation.    Different individuals
develop different ways of  responding  to such a sense  of
frustration.

     We  may enter  into a collusion with  others  to  the
effect  that  most of the values which one does  not  have
time and energy to affirm, are in reality counterfeits and
therefore  we  should  not  waste  our  time  and   energy
affirming them.   "We know the limited set of values which
merit  affirmation.  Persons who affirm other  values  are
lost and not worthy of respect."

     We may go farther and enter into another collusion to
the  effect  that  we have not entered into  the  previous
collusion.    An aspect of this second-order collusion  is
the loss  of awareness of the values which others  affirm,
and of the realities of life to which they are responsive.
Frustration is thus minimized by the loss of the awareness
of  the  situation  which  caused  the frustration.  It is
defined out of existence.   Mutual awareness is reduced by
collusion.

     The narrowly dedicated research scientist who devotes
almost all his  consciousness  and  energy to diversionary
research is but one example of the above. He may  be aware
of other values,  but regard them as counterfeit.   Or, he
may  be  so  dedicated to research as  to  have  lost  the
ability to enter into authentic meeting with  real  people
without fear of  estrangement.   By joining in one or more
collusions  with  like  scientists,   the  frustration  of
finitude may be temporarily forgotten.

     Scientists  who  solve  the problem  of  dealing with
finitude in the above ways lose their  personal  integrity
and cease to live as real persons. One may become far more
creative  by openly acknowledging one's finitude  and  the
worth of values which others affirm with their finite time
and energy.  With interdependence thus acknowledged,  team
work is possible;  drawing together real persons living in
differing states of consciousness.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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