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   %THEORY PERSONAL COMMUNAL BALANCE INTEGRITY LACK 900106

     The community which lacks an adequate theory of  what
contributes  to the growth and decay of balanced  personal
and  communal  integrity,  is a community which lacks  the
power  to recognize healthy growth and promote it;  and  a
community which lacks the power to recognize decay and act
to counter it in positive ways.

     Wise  vision is lacking in the absence of an adequate
theory  of  integrity.  Without integrative vision  it  is
often impossible to see clearly what essential ingredients
of  an  integrative  community are lacking  in  one's  own
community,  and so it is often impossible to take positive
steps to remedy that lack through constructive cooperative
efforts.

     In the  absence of a wise  theory  of integrity, that
which   is  disintegrative  may  appear  to  fulfill   the
knowledge  of good and evil in positive ways;  even as  it
leads   people  into  disintegrative  judgmental   actions
towards each other.

     In   the  absence  of  a wise  theory  of  integrity,
people  tend  to give too little  attention  to  behaviors
which  are  essential to personal and communal  integrity;
e.g.,   expressions of appreciation,  affection,  support,
personal presence, grief, sorrow, forgiveness, etc.

     In  the absence of a wise theory of integrity  people
tend  to  try  to substitute  additional  information  and
knowledge  about things technical,  for those  integrative
features of the community which are invisibly lacking.

     It  is wise to seek to develop an integrative  theory
of  integrity,  and to take steps to assure that  communal
leaders  together  understand what evidence  supports  the
theory;   and what the theory suggests as wise visions  of
the   possible  fulfillment  of  the  community  and   its
individual members.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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