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%FEAR OF INTEGRITY 830226
Each of us tends to fear whomever is in a position to
threaten whatever false games of mutual self deception we
may be playing with those closest to us. If our dishonest
games are exposed, our comfortable world will crumble. Our
lives will lose the meaning and stability we have built
through our system of incoherent self-deceptions. We
recognize in some dim way that our incoherent system has
less strength than a coherent one with greater integrity.
Yet, we have grown comfortable with, and gain private
advantages from, our inferior system, so we defend it
against all threats.
We are likely to perceive as an attack upon us any
effort by a person of integrity to point out to us the
lack of coherence in our way of perceiving and responding
to situations in keeping with our games of mutual self-
deception. We are likely to perceive their ways of
coping, not as an alternative which we might wisely
adopt, but as an evil threat upon our measure of success.
Their balanced way of perceiving what is real to them---we
may see as perverted and inconsistent with what we believe
to be true. To protect our highly specialized way of
seeing things, we will most likely seek to avoid becoming
familiar with alternative ways of seeing things which
might offer us a more balanced conception of the nature of
reality in all its complexity.
The scientists among us have developed highly formal
and mathematical conceptions of reality. Close attention
to sensory, emotional, personal, and social experiences is
bound to uncover weaknesses in their highly formal
systems. Often scientists play dishonest games of mutual
self-deception. They pretend that somehow their ways of
perceiving are inherently more "true" than the ways other
people perceive reality through unstructured and unplanned
sensory, emotional, personal, and social experiences. They
pretend that highly planned and controlled experiences
somehow reveal the true nature of reality, better than do
spontaneous experiences characterized by uninhibited
openness and honesty. Such scientists tend to fear the
perceptions of balanced people who have the integrity to
work cooperatively with people of a wide range of ways of
understanding and giving meaning to their experiences.
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