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 %NON-TECHNICAL ERRORS MISTAKES TRAGEDY IDEAL VALUE 900525                                         
                                                                                                                               
     To be  healthy we need to be able to  recognize   the                 
difference  between  technical errors and mistakes on  the                                     
one  hand,   and non-technical errors and mistakes on  the                                                  
other hand.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Tragedies are the result of non-technical errors.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Tragedies  cannot  be avoided by  avoiding  technical                                                  
errors.    Tragedies  occur even when there have  been  no                                                                     
technical  errors,   lacks,   mistakes,   failures,   etc.                                                  
Tragedies can occur in the face of technical perfection.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Greater devotion  to  technical  perfection  and    a                                                  
willingness to make greater sacrifices of time,  resources                                                            
and  materials  are  of  no  avail  in  efforts  to  avoid                                                                     
tragedies;  for tragedies flow from non-technical mistakes                                                  
in   becoming  dedicated  to   misleading ideals,  values,                                         
attitudes, goals, myths, gods, etc.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     To  deal  creatively with tragedies we must admit  to                         
the possibility that we may have made tragic non-technical                                                  
errors/mistakes   in  becoming  dedicated  to   misleading                                                                     
ideals, values, attitudes, goals, myths, gods, etc.  If we                                         
pretend  that  it is impossible for us to have  made  such                                                                     
errors/mistakes;   within the process of  developing  that              
pretense we have  set the trap which  will  play a central                                                                     
role  in future tragedies.  The trap will prevent us  from                                                                     
seeing  both   the  trap  and how the trap  will  lead  to                                               
repeated   tragedies  with  which we will  unable to  cope                                                                     
creatively.                         
                                                                                                                               
     The  pretense  that  we can avoid  tragedies  through                                
technical  procedures  is part of the collusive  games  of              
mutual self deception which characterize technocratic  and 
addictive communities as they disintegrate.  Civilizations                                                
rise as they honestly seek balanced personal and  communal                                                                
integrity.    Civilizations fall as they dishonestly  seek                                                                  
unbalanced   personal   and  communal  gain   and   unfair                                                                
advantage.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     The rise  and fall of civilizations pertain  to   the                                                                     
rise and fall of balanced personal and communal integrity;                                                                
and to the value which members of the civilizations  place                                                 
upon  such  balance  as  they  engage  in  the   technical                                                  
procedures of everyday life.              
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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