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     The essential character of a society is determined by
the  valued self-images found within the society.   To the
extent  that  any personal virtues are  idolized  personal
integrity  within the society is violated and the  society
is  fragmented in a manner in keeping with  the  society's
idolatry.   A   society  can  not  be  liberated  nor  its
individual  members  liberated by diversity of  individual
fulfillment   of   idolized  self-images,    even   though
such,diversity   through  collusion  be  regarded   as   a
liberating technique.

     The  technocratic  society  is  the  victim  of   the
idolization  of  the  technically  competent  self.    The
society  is fragmented by the affective  insensitivity  of
and  the  manipulative activities of the  technocrats  who
dominate  political decisions and action.

     The  tradition-bound  society  is the victim  of  the
idolization of the well-adjusted self.   The fragmentation
is  concealed in the individual repressions of  creativity
and new possibilities of personal fulfillment.

     The  revolutionary  society  is  the  victim  of  the
idolization   of  the  iconoclast  and   his   fragmenting
affirmation of un-realizable new ideals.

     The  idolization  of the "good"  self  leads  to  the
fragmentation   of  the  society  through  the  alienation
generated  by the use of maintained standards of good  and
evil.

     The  idolization  of honesty leads  to  fragmentation
through   injury   of  selves  toward  whom  others  were
insensitive, yet honest.

     When the thoroughly self-consistent self is  idolized
the  society  is  fragmented through  the  replacement  of
genuine personal desires by externally programmed behavior
patterns.

     When  the intellectual self is idolized  the  society
becomes    fragmented    through    the    operation    in
inadequate.theories   of  human  nature  as   created   by
individuals  who  do not recognize their own  intellectual
limitations.

     When  the thoroughly objective self,  is idolized the
society  is  fragmented  by  the  division  of  self  into
unrelated  objective  parts and subjective  consciousness,
body  and  mind,  body and soul,  body and spirit,   or  a
similar dichotomy.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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