This is http://www.essayz.com/a8605151.htm         
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words.
{Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.}
==========================================================
                               %KINDS OF IDEOLOGIES 860515

     Each  kind  of  ideology may be characterized  by the
kinds  of  human  behavior  toward  which  it  leads   its
incarnations.

     Given  a particular kind of ideology its incarnations
have certain kinds of technical difficulties in fulfilling
the visions inherent in the ideology.

     Many  difficulties  which  appear  to  be  inherently
technical,   matters of technique,  are more realistically
perceived to be inherent in the  lack of integrity in  the
ideology;    ideological   difficulties  and   ideological
incoherence.   An  incoherent ideology cannot  lead  to  a
coherent  technology.   Defensive people can  not  achieve
security  without  vulnerability.    Vulnerability  is  an
essential component in real security, for without intimacy
(which entails vulnerability) there is no security. People
who believe  in an  ideology which rejects these realities
can   not   enjoy  security  through   the   mounting   of
sophisticated defensive technologies.

     The   more   sophisticated  are   the   technological
difficulties  of a culture,  the more the members  of  the
society  need  to  become liberated  from  the  misleading
ideologies  which led them into technical  difficulties in
seeking to fulfill the visions inherent in the ideology.

     Technocratic  societies are likely to focus  most  of
their  members'   attentions upon technical components and
how the parts of the "machine"  relate to each other.   To
enjoy  true  security  they need  to focus more  of  their
attention  upon the nature  of,   and  inter-relationships
among,  the ideals and values which motivate  and lead the
members of the  societies.   Incoherent  ideals and values
lead   to   cultural  disintegration and to inter-cultural
conflict and violence.

     Violent conflicts are not moderated by creating  more
sophisticated  weapons  of  violence which are  capable of
higher  levels  of  destruction  and  faster  destruction.
Violent  conflicts  are  moderated  by participants in the
conflicts learning to understand  each other's values  and
ideals   and   how  they  can  become  inter-related   and
complementary for all.

     As our technocratic world achieves the  capacity  for
total  global self destruction these considerations assume
global  importance  in  ways  which  have previously  been
inconceivable.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================