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          %TRAGICALLY NEGLECTED TRANSCENDENT VALUES 810108

     Tragedies,  in the Greek sense, are occasioned by the
neglect of transcendent values.   Tragedies are occasioned
by the affirmation of positive values,  not by the neglect
of   all  values.    Tragedies  are  occasioned   by   the
affirmation of secondary (even though positive)  values to
the  neglect  of  greater values;  a  matter  of  confused
priorities.  The Englishman who sat sipping his 4 p.m. tea
(because  of  the  great  importance  of  relaxation   and
tradition)  while his house,  wife, and children burned---
occasioned a tragedy because of his inordinate affirmation
of  the  tradition of tea at 4 p.m.   He neglected  values
which transcend the value of having tea at 4 p.m.

    We may learn much about people by taking note of which
transcendent values they neglect to  affirm.  It is  often
distracting to note only those values which people affirm;
rarely  do  people  affirm  negative  values  for negative
reasons---usually   people  affirm  positive  values   for
positive   reasons.     The  tragedy   is   that   through
specialization  and  lack  of  balance  people  too  often
neglect   to   put  secondary  values  in  the  light   of
transcendent   values---by  neglecting  to   give   proper
consideration to transcendent values.  People often behave
as there were no basis upon which to regard some values as
of more important, more ultimate,  than other values.   If
all values are regarded as of equal importance, then it is
a   matter  of  individual  taste  which   we   emphasize.
Experience indicates otherwise.   How joyful,  successful,
meaningful,  coherent,  memorable,  pleasurable,   valued,
respected,  imitated, etc. a  person's  life  is---depends
greatly upon which pattern of values the person has as the
ground of being and  doing,  and depends upon which values
the person neglects.

     Neglected  values  may  not  be  evident  because  of
collusions which contend that the neglected values are  of
such   little  consequence  as  to  be  inappropriate  for
considerations.   It may be taboo to mention  transcendent
values  because they will call  into  judgment  idolatrous
secondary  values.   The whole structure of an  idolatrous
sub-culture/profession  may  be  founded  upon  idolatrous
secondary  values which occasion protectionist  collusions
which it is taboo to point to.

                                                                                                                               
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