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       %DYNAMICS OF PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 880111

     For  a system of values to promote both personal  and
communal integrity it must encourage,  consciously or not,
integrative patterns of interactions among members  of the
community and  among  the  various aspects of their lives.
The integrative processes  must include positive feed back
for integrative activities,   and  negative  feedback  for
disintegrative activities.

     A  system  of values leads to disintegration when  in
theory  and  practice  it leads those  who  embody  it  to
demonstrate    positive   feed-back   for   disintegrative
behaviors,   and  negative   feed-back   for   integrative
behaviors.    Part  of  an  integrative  society  is   the
articulation  of the theory of its system of values;   and
how the  community understands the way in which its system
of   values  works  to  provide  positive  feed-back   for
integrative   behavior,    and  negative   feed-back   for
disintegrative behavior.  Confusion regarding how behavior
and theory work together to generate positive and negative
feedback can be part of a disintegrative society.

     System  analysts need to gain insight into how  feed-
back  loops encourage  or discourage integrative behavior,
concepts, thoughts, dialogue, and change.

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