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   %THEORY OF REFLEXIVE CHANGE BEHAVIOR CONSEQUENCE 890222

     Wise  behavior is based upon a coherent conception of
the relationship between behavior and consequences.

     If  Jack believes that action A will lead to effect B
and Jack desires effect B,  then Jack is likely to seek to
perform action A.  However, if Jack is wrong,  and in fact
action  A leads to effect C which is feared,  then  Jack's
best efforts will not result in the desired effect, but in
the  feared  effect.   Jack believes that he  can  achieve
security by being defensive;  Jack's defensive efforts are
generating general communal insecurity for every member of
the community. Jack is a nation!

     Jack  cannot  behave wisely if his beliefs  regarding
cause and effect do not correspond to reality.

     In human affairs the reality of cause and effect  can
be  created by the belief systems of the  participants  in
international  relationships.   The reality of  cause  and
effect   is   not  an  objective  reality   which   exists
independently   of  humans  and  their  institutions   and
nations.  The reality of international cause and effect is
created  by  the  habits  of mind and  heart  of  all  the
participants  in  the  international  relationships.   The
belief  systems  of  the  member  communities  create  the
patterns  of behavior which generate the relationships  of
cause  an effect in terms of which wise decisions need  to
be  made.   The world is a highly reflexive  system  which
cannot be helpfully understood and manipulated in  keeping
with the objective paradigm.

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