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                     %EXPLAINING WHY PEOPLE CONFORM 870321

     Sir  Isaac Newton reversed questioning in asking  why
objects stop,   accelerate,  rather than continuing to ask
why  they continue moving.   Until he reversed questioning
about the behavior of objects  progress  was impossible in
understanding how and why objects move and stop.

     It  may  be that we are trapped in asking  the  wrong
questions regarding how people behave.   We often ask  why
people  do not behave properly.   Why do people fail to do
what is so obviously the right thing to do?  Why do people
commit evil acts?  Why do people sin?   Why are there evil
people in the world?

     What would be the reverse questions?   Why do  people
conform?    What  leads people to pattern  their  behavior
according to how other people would have them behave, even
when doing so undermines their own personal integrity, and
thus  undermines the communal integrity?   Why  do  people
internalize programs for conformed  behavior which can not
be integrated  into  their  own  essential  being?    Such
internalization  of  disintegrative programs leads to  the
disintegrative   behaviors  which  motivate  attempts   to
program people to behave properly.

     How  can  we avoid internalization of  disintegrative
programs for conformal behavior?   What can lead us to the
ways  of  integrative behavior which  flow  from  coherent
personal  conceptions of what makes for both personal  and
communal integrity?  Perhaps new questions which are based
upon  radically new presuppositions may lead us  into  new
avenues  of integrative  research,   as  did  Newton's new
questions regarding why objects accelerate and stop.

     In the culture of his day Newton's new questions made
no  sense.   His answers to his senseless  questions  made
less sense, until by their fruits it became clear that his
new  way of regarding the behavior of objects was fruitful
in a delightful way which was very practical.   Pray  that
we may find ways to ask new questions which will lead  the
way to both personal and communal integrity.

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