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                  %DISINTEGRATIVE COMMUNAL DISEASES 871114

     Each kind of community is vulnerable to its own kinds
of  diseases which lead to communal disintegration and  to
the  disintegration  of  the  personal  integrity  of  the
members  of  the community.   The diseases differ  as  the
communities differ, and are similar as the communities are
similar.    Each disease undermines the integrity  of  the
community   and  of  its  contribution  to  its   members'
integrity.    Each disease cuts at the roots of unity  and
integrity;  i.e.,  dialogue, conversation,  communication,
learning   from   mistakes,    creativity,    flexibility,
responsiveness, responsibility, and wise decision making.

     Communal   diseases  are  rooted  in   disintegrative
communal  values; i.e.,    in  patterns  of  personal  and
communal  affirmation  of  what  is apparently  worthy  of
respect and  admiration,  what  it is apparently proper to
desire  and work for,  what kinds  of behavior  apparently
should be rewarded with  communal  respect and admiration.
Values   are   revealed  in  behavior,   and   in   verbal
affirmations to the extent that verbal affirmations entail
the exercise of power with integrity.  Verbal affirmations
offered  without  integrity  often  conceal disintegrative
values  which  are revealed only in behavior,  action  and
inaction.

     Communities  can  recover from  their  disintegrative
communal  diseases  only when they honestly  confront  the
reality  of the disintegrative character of many of  their
communal  values.    They need to honestly  examine  their
affirmations of what they communally  respect  which often
lead to personal and communal disintegration.

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