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                    %COLLUSIONS WAYS OF INFLUENCING 810101

     Collusions work by modifying our perceptions,  logic,
reasoning,   knowledge,  ways of understanding,   desires,
hopes,     expectations,     predictions,     verification
methodologies, interests, fears, and much more.

     Predictions  are vulnerable to collusive  biases---to
an  extent  related to how reflexive the predictions  are.
The act of formulating a prediction may be biased; the act
of  interpreting a previously made prediction in the light
of subsequent events  may  be  biased;   and human choices
affecting   the  course  of  events  and  the  process  of
verification of the prediction may all be biased.

     Collusive  biases may operate through fear,   wishes,
self images,  traditions,  beliefs,  language limitations,
economics,   political  power,  investments,   role  model
inertia, reward systems, punitive systems, etc.

     It  is  impossible  to be genuinely  objective  about
processes  which  may significantly affect the accuracy of
one's  perception of one's welfare,  security,  ground  of
hope,  source of meaning, ground of being,  or traditional
behavior  patterns.    Distance  from that  which  one  is
considering  is  possible only to the  extent  that  one's
personal welfare, security, meaning, etc. are perceived as
relatively  independent of the particular turn  of  future
events  in  the  process which one is  considering.    One
cannot  be  objective  about war,   revolution, population
explosions,  epidemics, resource crises,  economic crises,
elections,  intellectual analyses,  religious testimonies,
personal  relationships,   role models,   etc.   that  one
perceives as seriously threatening one's own self.   Thus,
what one can be objective  about  depends profoundly  upon
one's  source of security and hope,   upon one's ground of
being and doing.

     Collusions  generate  unstable situations  which  are
vulnerable to failure when environmental changes undermine
the apparent stability created  by the collusion. Maturity
pertains  to the ability to maintain  a  healthy  internal
dynamic equilibrium---when one is in a  threatening and/or
changing environment.   Mature creatures survive by  means
of   internal   processes   which  achieve   an   internal
equilibrium   which   is  advantageous  in   the   dynamic
environment. Immature creatures perish because they become
the victims of their changing environment,  reacting to it
in  a inflexible  way,  rather  than responding in  a  way
flexible which promotes  survival.  Collusions inhibit the
development of maturity.

                                                                                                                               
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