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     Through  the many  millions of  years of evolution---
organisms maintained survival  value  through  instinctive
behavior.  Instincts by their nature are not rationalistic
or intellectual,  although in more complex organisms  they
may  be recognized as associated with particular states of
consciousness. Organisms which have survived are organisms
of genetic codes for instincts  which have survival value.
It is the genetic codes which  survive, not the individual
organisms.

     This  process  has generated a generation  of  humans
with  many  of  the old instincts,  but  having  also  the
instincts  of  individuation,   analysis,    ensymbolment,
objectification,   transcendence,   self-awareness,  self-
righteousness,    and  arrogance.    These  new  instincts
complicate the operation of  the  traditional instincts of
sexuality,  commonality,  affection,  touching,  violence,
etc.    It  remains  to  be  determined  which   instincts
contribute most helpfully to survival value.

     Institutions  designed to help young  people  acquire
the liberation necessary  for  the  survival  of  what the
institutions  represent---need  to  consider  the  role of
instincts in  the survival  of  the  institution's  alumni
within their communal life.  If college alumni do not have
survival  value,   neither will their alma  mater.   If  a
college  intellectually rapes its  students,  its students
will not have  survival value.  If a college fails to help
its  students integrate rationality and arationality,  its
students will fail to live as liberated real persons  with
sufficient integrity to survive in a society accustomed to
violence.   Unless instinctive behavior  and  intellectual
processes are integrated into whole  persons,  alumni will
find it  impossible  to  have powerful intentionality  and
thereby  make  helpful  decisions and  engage  in  helpful
political action.

     In a  technocratic society there is  an  unrecognized
need for attractive scientists who have an integrity which
unites  instincts  and analysis in a whole person  who  is
committed  to  serving others who have real  problems  and
dilemmas.   Instincts   alone  often  lead  to   senseless
behavior.   Analysis  alone  often  leads  to  meaningless
behavior.  In either case people cease to live because  of
fragmentation.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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