This-essay is a7312062.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %SELF STIMULATION 731206 An organism which receives little or no stimulation soon ceases to live. interaction with others and the environment is an essential aspect of all life and to the extent that interaction ceases,living ceases. When interaction with others and the environment declines the self is motivated to attempt to replace external stimulation with self-stimulation. In some instances self- stimulation may through imagination and fantasy generate motivation to seek stimulation through dialogue and interaction with others different than self. In other instances the self may find self-stimulation is more satisfying and fail-safe than seeking the stimulation of authentic meeting and intimate relations with others. In the latter case the self, or a corresponding isolated group, will tend toward greater and greater isolation as it ceases to live. A self or isolated group may in seeking stimulation through dialogue seek dialogue only with others like in character with respect to the dominant focus of its existence, be it characterized by work, politics, life style, nationality, rationality, objectivity, sexuality, research, intellectual specialty sports, hobby, etc. A collection of like selves may as a commune become collectively isolated from others unlike in character and so the mutual stimulation within the commune may be essentially self-stimulation in that it does not facilitate transcendence of the limited perspectives of the members of the group as they protect themselves via collusions. Isolated individuals and groups are immature in the sense that a natural maturation process ceases to function. The helpful response of others is to seek ways to facilitate the resumption of the maturation process by encouraging a dedication to openness which enables dialogue in a fail-safe context. Attempts at full control to insure progress through an authoritarianly approved program of progress to a good conclusion of an acculturation process will be attempts which generate role playing and the playing of games rather than encourage the maturation of persons of integrity. Attempting to eliminate the symptoms of alienation without eliminating the root causes of alienation is as foolish as trying to cure a case of measles with face powder. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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