This-essay is a8501021.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %INTERDEPENDENT INTEGRATIVE IDEALS 850102 We can not enjoy peace and integrity so long as our highest ideals require us to view ourselves as separated from and better than others with whom we are completely interdependent. Ideals which require pretense, dishonesty and arrogance are NOT integrative ideals which bring peace by promoting open and authentic communication among members of a community. When people's most fundamental assumptions and convictions about themselves are affirmations of the goodness and propriety of the distinctions and separations among themselves, they do not hope to enjoy peace and integrity. Absent such hope and the desire to realize it, no dedication to and sophistication of powerful techniques will lead to the fulfillment of the un-valued possibility of joy in peace with integrity. We are what we are, whether or not we value what we are. If we ourselves and/or others important to us do not value what we are in reality, then we and they can not enjoy our selves secure in the intimate knowledge of our selves together in a coherent community characterized by personal and communal integrity. If we ultimately value the ideas and ideals which divide us as interdependent creatures, we will remain merely creatures characterized by our divisions, misunderstandings, frustrations and violence. We are creatures of our own self conceptions. If we conceive ourselves as a collection of individuals competing for a limited number of memberships in an elitist heaven which emphasizes differences in human ideals, then our lives will realize that conception and be characterized by alienative competition and the frustrations and violent conflict which flow from mutual mis-understanding and ignorance. We will fulfill our alienative ideals through alienation. If we value being separated by our differences, we will realize, make real, those values by living lonely separated lives. Yet such alienative values are the roots of our frustrations, anxieties, discontents and competitive violence. In reality we are totally interdependent with all creatures of our ecology. Ideals which deny that reality undermine our integrity and the possibility of enjoying our selves in intimate interdependent relationships which offer security and peace through vulnerable interdependence and community coherence. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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