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                %COOPERATIVE INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES 870207

     Members'    motivations  to  engage  in   cooperative
integrative activities are the keys to communal integrity.
To  sustain its integrity a community needs  to  celebrate
its   members'   motivations  to  engage  in   cooperative
integrative   activities.     In  the  absence   of   such
celebrations,  ideals which lead to disintegrative  action
are  likely  to  motivate people  to  repress  integrative
activities  and to view such repressions with respect  and
approval.    Thus it is helpful for there to be formal and
informal rituals  to  celebrate the  varied motivations to
engage in cooperative integrative activities.

     Integrative  activities bring together  complementary
realities  which are often viewed as being antithetical to
each  other;   e.g.,   good  and  evil,   respectable  and
loathsome,  proper and improper, scientific and reflexive,
objective and emotional,  etc.   People who view the poles
of  dichotomies  as  antithetical to  their  complementary
other  pole  are bound by their ideals to act in  ways  to
maintain   the   dichotomies;    to   oppose   cooperative
integrative   activities  in  which  the  poles   of   the
dichotomies are viewed as complementary to each other  and
appropriately  included  in  an  integrated  whole.   Such
people's  ideals undermine personal and communal integrity
in  the  service of other ideals which they regard  as  of
ultimate  importance.    In the service of  their  supreme
ideals they undermine cooperative integrative activities.

     One   of  the  most  effective  ways   to   undermine
cooperative  integrative  activities  is  to  inhibit  the
celebration  of  the motivations which  move  people  into
cooperative  integrative activities.   This may be done by
articulating  ideals in terms of which perceptions  become
perverted  and  integration of complementary realities  is
regarded as a perverted activity.  Fanatical idealists can
not bear to see their ideals be regarded as other than the
ultimate  ideals  to  which  all  other  ideals  must   be
sacrificed.

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