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%ANALYSIS OF COERCIVE VIOLENT IDEALS VALUES DYNAMIC 890915

     Coercive  and  violent  ideals and values  are  those
which  lead  their  personal  incarnations  to  engage  in
coercive and violent behaviors. It is important to analyze
ideals  and values as well as to analyze the  technologies
which are used to further ideals and values.  Some  ideals
and  values are such that by their peculiar character they
lead  people to engage in coercive and  violent  behavior.
The  values and ideals which have such a character must be
recognized as such to avoid their misleading aspects.

     Scholars  all to often become specialized and  narrow
in  their analysis by virtue of being bound by  traditions
which  are  embedded in their literature.  If  respect  is
measured  out  in  terms of references  and  citations  to
previous literature, more than in terms of originality and
creativity,  the scholarly community is imprisoned in  the
past.   Yet,  if the past is ignored and  forgotten,   its
mistakes will be repeated out of ignorance. It is not easy
to study the past in depth without being a participant  in
all  its traditional collusions and in the fulfillment  of
all  its  coercive and violent ideals  and  values.   Only
genuinely creative people can study the past without being
imprisoned by it.

     We  need to study the past to understand why  in  the
past   there  has  been  so  much  dishonesty,   coercion,
violence,  and imprisonment in collusions,  addictions and
codependent  behaviors.   We should study the past with  a
passion  for open and honest dialogue about  the  mistakes
made in choices of which ideals and values to embody.   We
cannot  learn  from the past without seeking to  transcend
the  misleading ideals and values which misled  people  in
the  past.  Technocrats do not ask questions about  ideals
and  values;  but about how to fulfill unquestioned ideals
and  values.   The  arms race is a tragic example  of  the
leadership offered by technocrats.

     If  the study of the past is dominated by the  values
of  the scientific and technocratic paradigms,  the  study
will  be so narrow and specialized as to miss the  lessons
which might be learned by an informed honest study of  the
past.   The scientific and technocratic  paradigms  regard
objectivity and analysis as being of supreme value.  There
is  much of great value which is not objective  and  which
cannot  be understood by taking it apart through analysis.
The  scientific and technocratic paradigms are  misleading
when  it  deals  with  ideals and values.   They  are  not
trustworthy when it comes to making an effort to  identify
coercive and violent values.

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