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                     %BREEDING DEFENSIVE INSECURITY 860414

     Insecurity breeds insecurity.

     The insecure person tends to behave like a  paranoid,
suspecting  that there are threats round-about.   Such  an
insecure  person  will  act defensively  and  breed  echo-
insecurity  in  potentially insecure persons  round-about;
and in turn receive echoes of insecurity from round-about.
The  energy  of  the potentially insecure people  who  are
round-about may be channeled into the amplification of the
echoes  of  insecurity---into  a  screeching of insecurity
through  mutual feed-back which confirms  all the fears of
all the insecure people who are round-about.

     Confirmations  of  insecurity come from  friends  and
enemy alike.  Friends join together confirming their fears
of  enemy.    Enemies through defensive  posturing confirm
each  other's  worst fears of potential attack.    To  the
insecure  the  defensive posturing round-about appears  as
preparations   for   attack.    Thus   insecurity   breeds
insecurity among  friends and enemies  alike.    Defensive
posturing does not moderate the feeling of insecurity.

     The  insecure  can  not  be  content  with  their own
confidence in their own convictions.   The  insecure  must
have  their convictions confirmed by increasing numbers of
converts to  their faith.   The insecure  constantly  need
assurances of their righteousness in their conviction, and
seek   converts.     The   insecure  new   converts   need
confirmations of  the righteousness of  their  conversion,
and  in turn seek converts to the collusive faith in which
they  can not be secure.   Participants in collusions  can
never  be  secure in their games of mutual self  deception
and  so  seek converts to their game to give themselves  a
sense of security.  They  perceive threats round-about and
echo   each   other's   perceptions   of   each    other's
defensiveness as threats of attack.  Their collusive games
of mutual self deception prevent  them from being open and
honest with each other and with  their perceived  enemies.
The insecure can not cope effectively with real situations
which trigger feelings of insecurity---because of the  din
of the echoes of their feelings of insecurity.

     True  security is not an objective reality,  and  can
not be achieved by any objective means.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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