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               %REPENTANCE AND REDEDICATION TO EVIL 841215

     Our situation will not be improved by repentance  and
rededication   to  the exclusive/unbalanced  values  which
led us into our  situation.  We  must  recognize  that the
roots  of  our  dilemma  are precisely those ideals  which
we most cherish:   we did not choose  them  wisely. Ideals
must be judged in terms  of experience with our eyes open.
Our   ideals  have  too  often  lead   to  disintegration,
alienation,   frustration,  violence and war.   We can not
survive that pattern much longer.

     To  avoid disintegration we must commit ourselves  to
integrity  and integration in a profound and ultimate way.
We    need   balance.      Balance   involves  a  creative
tension    between   complimentary  ideals,   values   and
principles.  We need to balance conflicting ideals in ways
which  promote  both  personal and communal  integrity  in
balanced ways.

     A   healthy  community  exists   with   unity   which
flows   from  communications  which  are safely  open  and
honest---because   members    of    the    community   are
profoundly  dedicated   to creating contexts within  which
all people may be secure in intimate relationships.     We
are   secure  to  the  extent  that  we   may   safely  be
vulnerable  in  intimate  relationships which   are   open
and honest.   We can not  be  secure  in situations  where
the ideal  is to understand,   predict and  control  human
behavior.   When applied  to  humans  that  ideal  elicits
defensiveness,    deception,  and distrust.    This is why
scientists  are so rarely the most widely trusted  members
of a community.

     The  assessment  of the worth of our present  set  of
ideals  is not an objective process, and it can not become
an  objective process.   Objective processes are not  self
referential.        Judgments,      choices, affirmations,
commitments  and decisions are inherently self-referential
activities;   they are by and about the subject who  makes
them.      They  are  not  objective,   and  can  not   be
meaningfully understood in objective terms.

                                                                                                                               
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