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  %TRANSCENDING CONTRARY ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR PATTERN 891016

     Individuals  and organizations often find  themselves
acting in ways which are completely contrary to their  own
professed  ideals and values.  They often persist in  such
contrary behavior in spite of forceful criticisms of  such
behaviors,   and in spite of terrible consequences of  the
contrary behavior. They do not learn from their mistakes.

     The most obvious example of such behavior on the part
of  individuals  is the behavior of the alcoholic or  drug
addict.   Anne  Wilson  Schaef  has provided  us  with  an
expanded intellectual framework within which to engage  in
criticism  and  self  criticism.  She  has  clarified  the
concept of "addiction" and "codependence"  with regards to
not   only   individuals;   but  also  with   regards   to
organizations and society as whole.

     We need a generally recognized intellectual framework
within   which   to  examine  examples  of  our   contrary
behaviors;   i.e.,   behaviors contrary  to  personal  and
communal  integrity.   We cannot cope with  such  contrary
behaviors  within the conceptual frameworks which lead  us
into  them.   We  need  to encourage  people  to  generate
criticisms  and  to facilitate publication  of  criticisms
which  transcend the conceptual frameworks which  generate
contrary  behavior  patterns.   Yet it is  those  contrary
behavior   patterns   which   inhibit   the   intellectual
recognition  of  such criticisms,  and which  inhibit  the
publication  of  such criticisms.   Alternative  means  of
recognition   and   publication  are  essential   to   the
transcendence of contrary patterns of behavior.

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