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%COHERENT COMMUNITY CONSTRUCTION IDEALS 850922
A coherent construction will survive longer than will
an incoherent one. A coherent construction holds together
because the elements of the construction are related to
each other in cohering ways, in ways consistent with the
nature of the elements and their possible inter-
relationships. They cohere, hold together. Because they
hold together the construction is stable, has integrity.
A community is a coherent construction if its members
are held together by a coherent set of ideas, ideals and
personal relationships. The integrity of a community
flows from the coherence of its ideas, ideals and personal
relationships of interdependence among its members. Some
"communities" are incoherent constructions and will not
survive long because their ideas, ideals and members are
held "together" in artificial ways which are inconsistent
with the elemental natures of those ideas, ideals and
members. There was coercion in the process of
construction. In the absence of continued coercion there
is disintegration because the construction lacks
integrity. In the presence of continued coercion there is
disintegration because of rebellion against the
artificiality of the construction.
Coercion and violence are symptoms of an incoherent
construction and they point to ways in which a community
lack integrity. The integrity of a community depends in
part upon the nature of its self-understanding, how it
regards itself. To be coherent a community must be with a
coherent self-conception; must conceive itself in ways
which are self-consistent with the natures of the ideas,
ideals and personal relationships which are central to
members of the community. It is impossible for such self-
conception to be based upon exclusively objective ideas,
ideals and members of the community. They lack the
reflexive coherence which is essential to holding the
community together with integrity. Objective
considerations and people can not be self-referential in
integrative ways. Objectivity is not integrative in
nature, it is analytic in nature; taking elemental pieces
apart rather than actively relating them to each other in
personal ways.
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