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                       %PREJUDICIAL ALIENATION EVIL 860805

     Feed-back loops  operate among prejudice,  alienation
and evil.

     Because  of  pre-judgment  occurring before dialogue-
which-generates-mutual-understanding,    there  is   often
rejection and alienation which is evil,  in the sense that
estrangement  is  the  essence  of evil  conditions  which
occasion what is called evil behavior.

     Alienation  undermines dialogue which might undermine
ignorance  and so  reduce  prejudice-and-alienation-which-
occasion-the-evil-conditions which occasion what is called
evil behavior.

     Because of evil behavior people reject each other, an
in ignorance prejudge those  about whom  they know little,
and from whom they are alienated.

     These are  not  strange  feed-back  loops.   They are
entirely  understandable  and  familiar,  considering  how
frequently they operate and may be  observed in all  walks
of  life.   No special efforts  need  to be made to create
conditions   under  which  to  study  the   operation   of
alienative  feed-back loops.    Children can observe their
operations  from the earliest ages,  if they  are  offered
some  insightful  leadership  and some useful concepts and
ideals in terms of which to see clearly without  collusive
blinders.

     Often  prejudiced  people make uninformed predictions
about  the  social consequences  of  an  action  which  in
ignorance  they fear,  and then act in  ways which help to
fulfill their predictions;  saying that the fulfillment of
their  predictions  shows that they were right in opposing
the action which they feared.   In such  ways  they  often
alienate  they very people  who could  help them transcend
their ignorance and fear.  They regard social consequences
in  the  same ways as they regard  objective  consequences
which  are  beyond  human  control.     In  ignorance  and
prejudice they do not recognize the difference.

     Disintegrative predictions which have the potential o
being self-fulfilling are of  doubtful value in comparison
to  integrative  predictions  which  have the potential of
being self-fulfilling.   Both may be equally "true".   The
truth   of   a   negative   prediction   is   insufficient
justification for making it, especially when an equivalent
positive prediction is equally true.  The choice  of which
truths   to   speak  can  make  the   difference   between
disintegration and integration.  Love chooses which truths
to speak with charity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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