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           %CREATIVITY IMAGINATION LOVE INTEGRATION 860717

     It   is  rare  that  people  who  are  creative  with
imaginative love decide on  integrative courses of  action
in  terms of a  systematic program of rules for what to do
in specified circumstances.   Technology is not the key to
imagination,   love,   creativity or  integration.   Often
technocrats inhibit  creativity,  imagination,   love  and
integration.    Their efforts  are  often  motivated by an
intent  to  guarantee  success  and  so  to  always  avoid
failure.  Their failures are occasioned by their inability
to deal creatively with  failure in loving ways which with
imagination  promote both personal and communal integrity.
No  degree  of intensity of desire or intention  to  avoid
failure  will  serve  as a guarantee of  success  for  any
systematic program to fulfill such desire or intention.  A
compulsive desire to avoid all failures will come close to
guaranteeing that there will be tragic failures,  and that
such tragic failures will  not be recognized for what they
are.

     The   key  to  creativity,   imagination,   love  and
integration  is   not   in  systematic  understanding  and
control.  Success is more often associated with people who
are  dedicated  to promoting both  personal  and  communal
integrity.    They promote the reconciliation of conflicts
which inhibit creativity and imagination.   Through  their
efforts   fear,   inhibitions,  indifference,  depression,
cynicism,  etc.   are moderated so that people become free
to let go and be creative in imaginative ways that fulfill
their non-systematic potentials.

     Failure often lead to alienation.  Some people try to
minimize alienation by trying  to  prevent failures; i.e.,
trying  to  guarantee  success.   Some  try  to  guarantee
success by prohibiting failure.   Others try to  guarantee
success by offering rewards for success.   Such efforts to
minimize alienation  by  minimizing failures are far  less
successful  at minimizing alienation than would be efforts
to deal with the  failures  which  go with creativity  and
imagination---dealing with them in ways which promote both
personal and communal integrity.   It  is  how people deal
with failures  which occasion alienation.   It is possible
to  deal with failures in non-alienative  ways.  Trying to
prevent  all  failures  can itself be the  cause  of  much
alienation.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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