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%NUCLEAR WAR DISINTEGRATION 841209
Total nuclear war is the naturally logical conclusion
of a paradigm which seeks to achieve total control of
events by increasingly extreme affirmations of the ideals
of: objectification, quantification, analytic
understanding, prediction, and control. To achieve these
ultimate goals the paradigm leads its believers to call
into question the reality and value of the unity and
integrity---of communities and individuals created by open
and honest dialogue which is free of fear in spite of
great vulnerability. Such communities are secure through
intimacy and vulnerability which are free from the need
for fear. The manipulative paradigm seeks to achieve
security through defensive maneuvers which are what
generate alienation and so generate contexts which are
genuinely fear-full. Within the manipulative paradigm
it is impossible to believe that true security is a gift
to people who seek intimacy which involves safe
vulnerability. When we are free of the blinders of the
paradigm we can perceive that we are most secure when we
are free to be vulnerable without the need to be fearful.
The extreme affirmation of the ideals of
objectification, quantification, analytic understanding,
prediction and control---lead away from security to
alienation, fear, frustration and violence; and
ultimately to total violence. No technological
fulfillment of such ideals will achieve security,
because security is not a goal which can be achieved; it
is a gift to be offered and accepted. The purpose of
security arrangements is to generate fear. Fear can not
eliminate the need to be fearful. Security arrangements
can not eliminate the need to be fearful. Security
arrangements can not generate security. Within the
manipulative paradigm it is impossible to make sense of
these insights, for they appear to be nonsense.
Threats of total nuclear war are logically consistent
with the ideals of the manipulative paradigm. Such
threats are perceived to be means to serve humane
purposes. They are the best that can be offered by those
who have faith in the paradigm, and so fear those
alternatives which transcend the paradigm; for it would
crack their world-view to take such an alternative to be a
serious possibility for a new way of being---which would
shake the foundations of their fears---with the courage
to be secure through vulnerability in intimate,
meaningful, personal relationships.
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