This-essay is a7810024.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 ========================================================== %PERVERSITY & ADAPTABILITY 781002 People are surprisingly adaptable. By evolution we have developed into a species which is capable of surviving in an incredibly wide range of circumstances. Initially the adaptability was directed toward coping with diverse physical environments. Now our very adaptability plays a central role in creating environments. Sometimes we create perverse environments which test our adaptability to the limits. Perverse environments occasion perverse adaptations. Thus perverse behavior is often adaptive behavior--- occasioned by perverse environments. To deal helpfully with such perverse behavior it is essential to recognize how it is related to the perverse environment. It is futile to try to eliminate perverse behavior while the perverse environment is thoughtlessly accepted. Perverse individual behavior may mirror the perversion of the environment, or may be a creative attempt to transcend the perversion of the environment. Our ability to adapt is so great that we may so thoroughly adapt to a perverse environment---that we no longer recognize it as perverse. Perversion may become normal, in the sense that it is normative---accepted by the vast majority of people. To people who have adapted to perversion to such a great extent, the people who have NOT adapted will appear unadaptable, asocial, nonconformists, revolutionary, dangerous, and even perverted. The negative reactions may be defensive moves to protect collusions, which protect the adaptations by which perverse environment/responses are regarded as normal. Healthy people who do not affirm those adaptations---through their failure to affirm the adaptations challenge the collusions which are central to the world-view of the adaptable people. Pressure must be brought to and bear upon them to get them to adapt, to conform, to join the collusion. To survive perverse environments, creative people need to respond in ways which transcend the limiting perspectives and assumptions of the perverse environment. Once a perverse environment is accepted, one may be limited to perverse responses to it. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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