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     %COMMUNAL REFLEXIVE WISDOM COLLUSION ADDICTION 890516

     It  is  often difficult to recognize  the  difference
between  communal reflexive wisdom and communal  collusive
addiction.   Each of the two is likely to be offensive and
embarrassing to significant members of the community. Each
of  the  two  is  likely to entail  some  members  of  the
community  experiencing  communal encouragement to  change
their way of thinking; but it is likely to be difficult to
recognize    the   difference   between   the   kinds   of
encouragement entailed in the two different situations.

     Communal   collusive   addiction   entails   coercive
encouragement  of  nonconformists to force them to  change
their  habits of mind/heart/behavior to conform to  group-
think.

     When there exists communal reflexive wisdom,  members
of  the  community  find themselves free to  be  open  and
honest   about  their  personal  experiences,    feelings,
perceptions, opinions, etc.; for communal reflexive wisdom
entails  the setting free of the oppressed to be  true  to
themselves  with  personal integrity in a community  which
maintains  its  communal integrity by  promoting  personal
integrity.

     Reflexive  communal wisdom entails the community as a
whole being free to consider its own mistakes, so as to be
able  to learn from communal mistakes by being  responsive
to  insights  of non-conformist members of  the  community
regarding   how  members  of  the  community  might   more
effectively promote both personal and communal integrity.

     A   compulsive   preoccupation   with   reductionism,
analysis,  objectivity,  quantitative measurement,  linear
relationships,   manipulation  and control  will  work  to
undermine  the  processes of communal wisdom by  depriving
people of the freedom to be reflexively open and honest in
communal  dialogue about experiences which will not  yield
to  reductionism,  analysis,   objectivity,   quantitative
measurements,   linear analysis,  manipulation or control.
Compulsive  people  compulsively  avoid  those  situations
which  their  compulsions  lead  them  to  experience   as
embarrassing.

     Compulsive people are selective in choosing upon what
to  compulsively  focus their attention;  as much in  what
they avoid,  as in what they focus upon.  The error is  as
much in what they avoid,  as in what they focus all  their
attention  upon.   Avoiding all  reflexive  considerations
generates  an  inability to consider the  consequences  of
one's own mistakes,  and so leads to an inability to learn
from one's own mistakes.  Compulsive people make the  same
mistakes over and over.

     Communal  reflexive wisdom sets people free of  their
compulsive tendencies so that the community can learn from
its  mistakes through reflexive public dialogue  regarding
the consequences of communal patterns of behavior.

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