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%INCARNATIONS OF IDEAL ROLE MODELS 850408
The world's great religions focus upon the
incarnations of ideal role models. Ideals, values, moral
codes, etc. tend to become technocratic and need to be
balanced off by role models who both embody and transcend
them. The teaching of the ideals, values, moral codes,
etc. in the absence of attractive people who embody them
with integrity leads to the disintegration of the
community that attempts that way to salvation. Following
a personal leader's role model is much easier than seeking
to creatively embody ideals which run counter to the
behavioral patterns of people nearest and dearest to you.
The more the personal leader embodies ideals with personal
and communal integrity the more easily it is to copy the
creative behavior pattern.
Technocrats who embody the scientists ideals of
objectivity tend to try to dispense with the more personal
aspects of behavior, playing down the importance of
incarnation. They focus attention upon abstractions,
generalizations, laws, quantifications, etc. which are
distinctively not personal in nature. Impersonal
realities are regarded as ultimate realities and so
incarnations are regarded as of minor importance. They
have a logical problem in making their ideals attractive
to personable individuals. They focus upon formal
procedures of verbalization and quantification, pretending
to transcend self-referential behavior as they affirm the
importance of their own behavior. They seek to transcend
bias of subjective perceptions by adopting the bias of
exclusively objective perceptions, and by pretending that
their own personal perceptions which are guided by that
bias are free of bias. They believe that abstractions,
generalizations, laws, quantifications, etc. transcend the
biases of particular personal observations upon which they
are based.
Ideal role models do not fall into the trap of
exclusive affirmations of unbalanced ideals. Ideal role
models are essentially integrative in nature and seek
coherent balance among ideals. They seek creative
resolutions of conflicts among ideals rather than the
victory of one ideal over other ideal at the expense of
the affirmation of the loser.
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