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   %CONFLICT EXCLUSIVE PERFECT CONTROL BALANCE EVIL 890520

     Major  conflicts  often  pertain to the  exercise  of
exclusive  control.  When there are efforts to act  wisely
there   are   efforts  to  assure  that  there   is   full
representation  of all appropriate considerations  in  the
exercise of control. The issue is whether or not there are
any  considerations  which  should be  excluded  from  the
process of governance.

     Often  there is a fear that the inclusion of  certain
considerations in the process of governance amounts to the
loss  of a desirable level of control.  In such situations
there is a sense in which to some people the ultimate good
is   the  process  of  excluding  from  governance   those
considerations  which are most feared.  In such situations
fear governs.

     When fear governs there is disintegration.

     When fear governs, dialogue is inhibited and  balance
is lost in considerations which are central to governance.
When fear governs some people who are feared are  excluded
from governmental considerations,  and governance proceeds
in  ignorance  of  the  insights  which  might  have  been
presented by those who were excluded.

     It  is  dangerous  to respect any form  of  exclusive
control,  or any desire to achieve exclusive control.  The
power  to  exclude  and  be  exclusive  is  the  power  to
disintegrate the whole, the power to destroy the whole.

     When  any aspect of a whole seeks to be in  exclusive
control of the whole, the process of the disintegration of
the  whole  has  begun.  The process of seeking to  be  in
exclusive   control  of  the  whole  is  the  process   of
destruction  of  the balance which is the essence  of  the
integrity  of the whole.  The desire to be in full control
is a disintegrative desire, and it is dangerous to respect
such a desire.

     The integrity of a community and its members does not
reside in any aspect of the whole being in full control of
the whole.  When any part of the whole is in full  control
of the whole, the whole is out of balance. Communities and
members  of  communities who have lost their  balance  are
falling apart, disintegrating.

     The  efforts  of  people  who  seek  and/or  exercise
exclusive  control  are  not worthy  of  respect.   It  is
essential  to  the  integrity  of a  community  that  such
people's  efforts not be respected,  that the children  of
the  community  be taught that it is dangerous to  respect
the  efforts  of people who  exercise  exclusive  control.
Members   of   an  integrated  community  will   grow   up
understanding that their efforts will not be respected  if
they  desire  and/or  exercise exclusive  control  in  any
situation.  The presence of such a consensus is protection
against    the    evolution   of    factions    exercising
disintegrative control over the processes of the whole.

     The  notion  of the exercise of control is  often  an
illusion.

     Those  who think that they can exercise full  control
over  a situation are participants in collusive  games  of
mutual  self deception;  for the attempt to exercise  full
control  leads to the disintegration of the whole of  that
which  is  presumably  being controlled.  The  process  of
disintegration  includes the process of disintegration  of
those who are presumably in control. Their perception that
they  are  in  control is illusory,  and is  part  of  the
process  of  their own disintegration.  The perception  by
others  that  those who think they are in control  are  in
fact  in control is also an illusion,  and is part of  the
process of disintegration of the whole.

     A  community cannot enjoy integrity if it is governed
in   an  unbalanced  way.   Any  effort  to  exclude  from
consideration any aspect of the whole is a  disintegrative
effort  and  is not worthy of respect by any part  of  the
whole.   To grant respect to any such effort is  dangerous
and such grants of respect are not worthy of respect.

     When  some  are  excluded  from  consideration  in  a
government  their natural tendency is to insist that  they
be  given consideration;  and often,  that they be granted
the  power of exclusive control.  Efforts to exclude  thus
often  generate  mirror  images of  themselves,   and  the
process of disintegration is thus accentuated.

     Many  efforts  to  achieve exclusive control  can  be
helpfully  perceived as part of the  addictive/codependent
process  in which people seek to compensate for their lack
of healthy self esteem by seeking to be perfect and  fully
in   control.   They  seek  to  achieve  security  through
technocratic  defensive  measures which  entail  exclusion
from  their  consideration of all that they  fear.   Their
efforts  confuse them and the issues which are present  in
their  predicament.   Their integrity  depends  upon  them
regaining    an   inclusive   sense   of   balance   among
complementary values and ideals.

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