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%ACTING CREATIVELY WITH INTEGRITY-1 850221
It is creative, and difficult, to act with integrity
in doing what one has never seen another person do with
integrity within a supportive community. Copying another
person's group-affirmed example is easy, if the person
and group did what you seek to do with both personal
and communal integrity.
It is persons' group-affirmed actions which are can
easily be copied. There is a sense in which
individual isolated actions, actions without context, do
not exist. We can not copy un-contexted actions. We can
copy only contexted actions. If we have never seen
certain actions in a context, all we can do is fantasize
about previously un-contexted actions; visions which we
may try to put into some envisioned context. Yet, such
visions do not have the full power of real experiences.
As individuals we can not decide and act to copy
fantasized actions in real contexts of our own creation;
except in visions and fantasies, not within the context
the real reactions of other people to our actions and
self-revelations. Thus genuinely new actions require
the creative cooperation of others to be creative with
integrity.
Only if we are jointly creative with both personal
and communal integrity---will our new actions
serve creatively as role models to make it easier for
others to follow our behavior with personal and communal
integrity. Creativity which survives entails cooperation.
Creativity which so threatens others that fear prevents
their cooperation---is creativity which is not likely
to survive. Collusions are transcended by creative
behavior engaged in jointly in cooperative behavior
which is characterized by both personal and communal
integrity.
Creative role models provide new models for human
behavior by maintaining their personal integrity---
while working to facilitate the integration of their
community by helping its members and factions resolve
conflicts among their ideas and ideals. Such role
models' lives tell a new story---which makes attractive
sense and provides an alternative to the story told by
the myths of the dominant collusions of the society.
Their drama is a powerful tool for the integration of
conflicting elements of the community and its ideals.
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