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                %APPROPRIATE FEAR OF DISINTEGRATION 861119

     Appropriate  fear  leads   to   appropriate   action.
Inappropriate   fear  leads  to  paralysis  and  inaction.
Appropriate fear of disintegration leads  to  constructive
integrative action motivated by Love.   Inappropriate fear
of  disintegration  leads  to  paralysis,   inaction   and
disintegration.    There are many kinds of fear.   Not all
kinds of fear are appropriate.  Only certain kinds of fear
in  certain contexts  are appropriate and  integrative  in
their ultimate effects.

     Fear  which  flows from ignorance and/or confusion is
not  integrative  fear.    Such  fear  does  not  lead  to
integrative  action.   Yet fear of ignorance and confusion
is appropriate and naturally leads to integrative action.

     People who use fear as a tool thereby engage in  evil
behavior;    i.e.,    disintegrative   behavior  entailing
alienation,  the breakdown  of  communication,   dialogue,
community.    Being  technologically  sophisticated,  well
educated and powerful does not protect anybody against the
disintegration of such technological use of fear.

     Disintegration flows from inappropriate understanding
of integrity.  Any "integrity" which persists only through
coercion   is  not  genuine  integrity,   and  the   false
appearance of integrity  will  disintegrate in due course.
Legalistic  morality  designed  to  organize  technocratic
conformity  flows  from  an inappropriate understanding of
integrity.   Its  disintegration  in spite of  efforts  to
enforce   law  and  order  is  the  tragic  fruit  of  the
misunderstanding of the essence of integrity.

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