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       %INTEGRITY PRIORITY HEALTHY COMMUNITY NATION 870404

     The integrity of a healthy community depends upon its
members  seeking  above all else  to  promote  a  coherent
balanced  between personal  and communal  integrity.    In
selecting their leaders they seek leaders who will promote
balance  rather  than seek leaders who  will  promote  the
divisive special interests of conflicting special interest
groups.

     The   very  process  of  dedicating  oneself  to  the
fanatical support of a narrow special interest group is  a
disintegrative process.   It lays  the foundations for the
disintegration   of  the  community  and  the  nation   by
presuming that individual people's welfare can be promoted
by  creating  heightened special interest  conflicts among
groups  of  people committed  to  incoherent/uncoordinated
ideals and values.

     The integrity of the national community depends  upon
its  members  sharing  a common passion  for  transcendent
ideals  and  values which lead the members  to  place  all
special  interest  considerations  within the  context  of
promoting  communal  integrity  when  selecting   communal
priorities.    Leaders  are  chosen and  lead  to  promote
balanced communal and personal integrity.

     For  a nation to survive with integrity  its  leaders
must  use the communal power with which they are entrusted
to  help  set communal priorities  which  create  contexts
within which individual members of the nation are set free
to  fulfill their unique potentials for creative  personal
integrity.    Such  integrative  leaders help  define  and
refine  the  concepts of individual freedoms,  rights  and
responsibilities within the broader context of the  common
passion for transcendent ideals and values which bind  the
community  together  as  a coherent whole.   They  do  not
encourage powerful individuals to seek personal advantages
at  the  expense of personal,   communal,   national,   or
international integrity.

     When individuals and nations seek a coherent  balance
between personal and communal integrity they come to enjoy
genuine  security which is free of defensive  technologies
because  as they promote integrity they become free to  be
safely  vulnerable  in intimate relationships of open  and
honest  dialogue about what is real in the  experience  of
each unique person.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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