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       %MODELS AS VALUE PATTERNS LANGUAGE INTELLECT+790511
          %PERSON CULTURE AFFECT COMPARE TRUTH LEAD 790511

     Our values are embodied in the patterns which lead to
our  behavior.    Included in our value patterns  are  the
models  which  we  take seriously.   Most obvious are  the
personal   role  models  whom  we  copy   consciously   or
subconsciously---the people whom  we admire and after whom
we pattern ourselves.  Less obvious are the people toward
whom  we react  negatively,  yet to whom we are bonded  in
some  way  that  leads  us to model them  in  our  selves.
Perhaps   even   less  obvious  are  the   languages   and
intellectual models which dominate our daily lives.   They
may  constituent the most  pervasive value patterns,   and
lead us to behave in ways that we are not aware of.

     We  often  ask  only if our  intellectual  models are
"true" or "false".   Rarely do we ask if they are "loving"
or "alienative"; "helpful",  or "misleading".   We tend to
think of people as being "gentle" or "violent"; but rarely
ask if our intellectual models are "gentle"  or "violent".
Because  many  of  our  intellectual  models  are  usually
impersonal---they  tend to be "alienative"  and "violent";
rather than "loving" and "gentle". This is especially true
of analytic, quantitative, and systematic models which are
developed  with  little  respect  for  intimate   personal
realities.

     The languages  which  dominate  our  lives  do  so by
patterning  our  thought processes.    By  patterning  our
though  processes our languages serve as values which lead
us  to behave one way,  rather than another way.  This  is
true  of spoken and written verbal languages.   It is also
true  of  non-verbal  languages  such  as  body  language,
gestures,    facial   expressions,    stylized   behavior,
etiquette,  art,  music, mathematics,  drawings,  computer
programing languages,  flow charts, etc.  Each way we have
of  making  comparisons can serve to pattern our  behavior
and so serve as a value.

     We often tend  to think of values  as those important
things which we will speak of as important,  which we will
publicly say are important to us; our declared priorities.
Yet our  behavior rarely conforms to our  verbal  patterns
which  lead to our behavior.   It is usually difficult  to
become  aware of the patterns which lead to our  behavior,
and  so  difficult  to become aware of  the  values  which
occasion conflict, tension, misunderstanding, and violence
between  people  who  have incongruous  values.   Conflict
resolution  often depends upon becoming mutually aware  of
and mutually understanding our tacit value patterns.

                                                                                                                               
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