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               %ARROGANCE OF ALIENATED INDEPENDENCE 850116

     Some people are arrogantly proud of not being  inter-
dependent,  of not needing the help, company and affection
of other people.   The are proud of their self-sufficiency
in their ability to work out their own ultimate salvation,
and  believe  that others should also work out  their  own
salvation in an independent way.   They ultimately respect
their  own independence and look with  condescension  upon
people who are so weak that they are interdependent.

     Wise  people  who  acknowledge the reality  of  their
interdependence are often frightened and threatened by the
arrogance  of  the presumptuous who claim  that  they  are
totally  independent  and  able  to  work  out  their  own
salvation.  Such arrogance is a threat to the integrity of
the  community  and by stages is likely to  undermine  the
unity  of  the community by separating  people  from  each
other as they presume to be independent of each other. The
arrogantly independent are not worthy of respect  for what
they believe they have accomplished;  for it is  not real.
It is pretense.

     All  living  creatures are interdependent within  the
ecosystem of their home planet.   The resources upon which
all draw are finite.  What happens to any creature affects
what  happens  to  many other creatures in  a  chain  that
reaches  around  the planet and down  through  time.    No
creature is genuinely isolated, no matter how grand it may
be.  The bigger the creature the more dependent it is upon
smaller  more primitive creatures.   The less devoted  the
creature is to creating food the more dependent it is upon
the  more  primitive creatures who are totally devoted  to
creating food.  The more grand the more dependent.

     The pretense of independence and self-sufficiency  is
dangerous  because  it  threatens  personal  and  communal
integrity.    Honesty about the reality of interdependence
is  wise  because  it  facilitate  realistic  coping  with
personal and communal integrity.

                                                                                                                               
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