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%AFFECTIVE EMOTIONAL DENIAL 860304
It is possible to engage in affective and emotional
denials of cognitive knowledge while intellectually
affirming the cognitive knowledge. Logical and rational
articulations of objective knowledge are not reliable
indications that the articulators' behaviors will be
consistent with those articulations, no matter how
intelligent, informed and respected the articulators may
be.
It is possible for barriers to exist between logical
and rational articulations and the affective and emotional
lives of the articulators. The articulators may be
incapable of connecting their articulations to make them
relevant to choosing values, ideals, priorities, and goals
in their daily lives. Highly intelligent and well
educated people engage in sophisticated forms of reality
denial to prevent their unstable artificial perceptions of
reality from crumbling. Such people and their loved ones
cooperate in such ventures in enabling alcoholism, drug
abuse, resource abuse, technology abuse, religions
extremism, arms races and strategic defense initiatives.
Intelligence, logic, objective information, wealth,
respectability, power and their like are not reliable
indications of the absence of reality denial.
People who associate exclusively with their own kind
thereby signal their involvement in reality denial.
Exclusivity is an attempt to deny reality and to live in a
world of pretense. This is true even if the basis of
exclusivity is intelligence, logic, objectivity, extensive
information, wealth, respectability and/or power.
Exclusivity is disintegrative and not an effective
foundation for survival. Exclusivity ignores real threats
to survival.
People who exclude consideration of emotional and
affective realities ignore the reality that decisions and
actions are more motivated by emotional and affective
considerations; than by intellectual, logical, objective
and rational considerations. The failure to integrate all
kinds of considerations into a coherent whole which makes
both intellectual and emotional sense---is part of an
immature effort to pretend that human relationships can be
understood, predicted and controlled in terms of
exclusively intellectual, logical, informational,
rational, etc. kinds of knowledge. The failure is a
manifestation of addiction just as alcoholism and drug
abuse are.
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