This is http://www.essayz.com/a8711041.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %COLLUSION BLOCKED NEED FOR INTEGRITY 871104 The human need for both personal and communal integrity is the most basic need, yet humans in the compulsive service of their collusions all too often block the perception and acknowledgement of this most basic need. Needs whose existence are not acknowledged, much less affirmed, are unlikely to be met. Collusive behavior makes misleading behavior to be of ultimate importance leads to the concealment of the importance of both personal and communal integrity, and so leads to both personal and communal disintegration. Participants in collusions feel a compulsive need to inhibit the recognition of the importance of both personal and communal integrity. They implicitly recognize that the affirmation of the importance of integrity will lead directly to the recognition of the deceptions which are central to the maintaining of the collusive conceptions of truth and respectability, and so central to conceptions of acceptable human behavior. If there is confusion regarding what is and what is not acceptable human behavior, there is bound to be social confusion leading to chaos. It is important to be clear about what is, and what is not acceptable behavior. We must maintain high moral and ethical standards, and if we do not, we are bound to pay a high price for letting our guard down. It is our responsibility to discipline ourselves and others to insure that people behave properly. When people do not behave properly we must recognize improper behavior, and impose appropriate sanctions to encourage proper behavior. It is important to articulate clear definitions of what is, and what is not, acceptable behavior. It is dangerous to accept improper behavior as if it was worthy of respect. We must be careful not to accord respectability to any people who behave improperly. They must not ever be treated as if they were behaving properly. Clarity about morality and ethics is the key to social stability. It is important that we teach our children what is, and what is not, acceptable behavior; so that when they grow up they will all become respectable members of a well ordered society. The beginning of respectability is in childhood. Children should learn to understand these truths early, else they may go astray and get strange ideas in their heads which will threaten the good order which has taken us so long to achieve. Some people teach too much freedom of thought and expressions. Such teachings are dangerous and should be properly regulated so that young people do not go astray into unacceptable ways of thinking about morality and ethics. Freedom without proper discipline is very dangerous. Real freedom comes from accepting the discipline and leadership of older people who know what is proper and good. If our leadership is not accepted there is a natural human tendency to drift into evil ways under the leadership of the Devil. We must always be on guard against the temptations of the Devil. We must teach our children the knowledge of the difference between good and evil so that they will know how to obey and do good, rather than yield to temptation as Adam and Eve did in the Garden, and eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge which was in the midst of the Garden. When they disobeyed and ate of the fruit they then presumed to know the difference between good and evil, and so left the Garden of Eden. The human need for both personal and communal integrity is the most basic need, yet humans in the compulsive service of their collusions all too often block the perception and acknowledgement of this most basic need. Needs whose existence are not acknowledged, much less affirmed, are unlikely to be met. Collusive behavior which makes misleading behavior to be of ultimate importance leads to the concealment of the importance of both personal and communal integrity, and so leads to both personal and communal disintegration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================