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%ANTI-INTERDEPENDENCE VALUES 800303
Some people affirm interdependence. Other people
affirm values which would exclude the value of
interdependence---they are anti-interdependent in stance.
Such "independence" assumes that which is really real is a
collection of independent fragments, elementary parts,
which each have their independent characteristics which
are eternal and unchanging. Interaction between
independent fragments takes place according to eternal
laws which are unchanging. Thus nothing changes except
for the locations of the fragments, and whether or not
they exist. Everything that can be specified may be
specified by an enumeration of which fragments exist,
where they exist, and their momentary condition of motion.
There is no fundamental role for personal interdependence
and dialogue within such a way of perceiving the
relationship between the person who perceives---and that
which the person experiences at the conscious and non-
conscious level. In an effort to understand personal
experience---it is reduced to a model composed of non-
personal objects whose existence, nature, and essences are
presumed to be independent of the dialogue between the
persons who seek to understand their common experiences.
It is hard to understand how people who do not take
their interdependence to be an essential aspect of their
being---can hope to understand their common experiences
through being anti-interdependent in their formulation of
the basic categories in terms of which they seek to
understand their interdependence. How can dialogue be
founded upon the presupposition that personal dialogue is
impossible---because there are no beings beyond the
collections of eternal fragments dancing to eternal laws
in a senseless dance of determinism?
What fears motivate the tendency toward alienated
independence? What hazards lurk in interdependence? What
kinds of vulnerability? What punishments for breaking
laws? Can the laws of nature be violated? By hypothesis
no! The fears must originate in anticipations of human
choices, choices which by hypothesis are deterministic!
Choices which tend to excommunicate people---who in fear
of excommunication by others---choose self-excommunication
and anti-interdependence as technical way of coping---
which is logically consistent with the essential
alienation of the fragments of reality which are eternally
unchanging as they dance to unchanging eternal laws.
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