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%CONTAGIOUS DISINTEGRATIVE DISEASE 840503
The work of Love is the promotion of integrity on the
part of both individuals and communities. Integrity is
undermined by disintegrative diseases which are
contagious. Such medical diseases have long been
recognized, analyzed and treated. No so well recognized,
analyzed or treated are disintegrative diseases in the
religious, political, economic, social, intellectual,
psychological, and related domains of human life.
Disintegrative diseases in such areas are often
contagious; i.e., the presence of disintegration in one
part of a community will often lead by a chain of cause-
and-effect events to disintegration in other parts of the
community, and so to the disintegration of the community
as both it and its members lose integrity.
Sometimes a disintegrative disease is present in the
way in which individuals and communities try to prevent
the disintegration of their community. Efforts to inhibit
disintegration often inhibit communication instead, and so
undermine the integrity of the community as communications
lose their spontaneity and openness. Systematic efforts
to inhibit disintegration often lead to systematic
patterns of human behavior which do not fit well with more
deeply rooted behavior patterns which promoted human
survival. Such systematic efforts become a cancerous
disease when they grow beyond the bounds of integrative
efforts, and lead a parasitic life of their own,
sapping the energy of the community which sustains
them.
Love works to recognize disintegrative diseases,
clearly identify their nature and effects, and then assess
ways of responding to them in ways which do NOT further
undermine the integrity of the persons and
individuals within the suffering community. DISINTEGRATIVE
"curative" efforts are the essence of tragedy. Sincere
well intentioned efforts to do what is believed to be
"right" often lead to horrible consequences. What
is ultimately "right" leads instead to greater
personal and communal integrity.
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