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%CREATIVE CHANGE GROWTH FAULT RESPONSIBILITY REJECT 900214

     For  creative change and growth to occur there  needs
to be clarity regarding who has the power to take steps to
initiate the change and growth which needs to take  place.
Such  steps  are unlikely to be taken so long as there  is
confusion as to who may best take the steps; e.g., so long
as  it is assumed by everyone that some person or  persons
should take the steps,  and those persons do not have  the
power, will or desire to do what needs to be done.

     The  responsibility  to promote creative  change  and
growth is likely to be confused if there is a tradition of
rejecting  people  who make mistakes.   Rejection  entails
excommunication; exclusion from meaningful dialogue.  When
people  who have made mistakes are excluded from dialogue,
the  community  fails to learn what led them to  make  the
mistakes  which were made;  including failing to recognize
and  learn  from communal contributions  to  creating  the
contexts which led to individuals making mistakes.

     When  people see others who have taken initiatives in
efforts  to  promote creative change and growth,  and  who
have  made mistakes,  become the victims of rejection  and
excommunication,   timidity sets in;  initiatives are  not
taken,   creativity declines.  People are rarely punished,
rejected or excommunicated for not taking initiatives  and
for  not being creative.  Fault is generally laid  at  the
feet of people who act in notable ways, not at the feet of
people who stay in line in inconspicuous ways.

     The  concepts  of  responsibility  and  fault  become
confused   when   making  mistakes  leads  to   rejection,
alienation, exclusion from meaningful communal fellowship.
Then the process of analysis of cause and effect becomes a
misleading game in which the purpose is to make it  appear
that the blame belongs to someone else.  In such confusing
games it becomes impossible to understand what are natural
consequences,  and what are consequences of the misleading
games  of mutual self deception.  In such confusing  games
the web of collusions, addictions and codependent networks
of  collusive supports grow in ways which are not  clearly
perceived.  It becomes impossible to know who is,  and who
is  not,   behaving responsibly,  because the  concept  of
responsibility is confused.

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