This is http://www.essayz.com/a9007083.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %WISE TRUE SIMPLE COMPLEX ADDICT COLLUSION HIDE 900708 True wisdom is simple in comparison to many sophisticated systems of technocrats and other people who are addicted to complexity. True love is simple in comparison to may many sophisticated systems for rescuing people who appear to be in need. True liberal education is simple in comparison to many complex technical training programs. How are we to recognize when simplicity is wise and true on the one hand, and when calls for simplicity are calls for misleading naivete? There are occasions when simplicity of the wise sort is called for. There are other occasions when sophisticated insight into complex relationships is called for. Only fools would call for their airline pilot to treat the control instruments of the jetliner as if they were as simple as the controls on a child's wagon. Only fools would call for the operators of a nuclear power plant to treat the nuclear reactor boiler as a teakettle on a campfire. Only fools would call for the president of a multinational multi-billion dollar corporation to treat the leadership of the corporation as being as simple as leading a tree-house club on an afternoon in the tree- house. It is foolish to treat authentically complex situations as if they were truly simple. It is even more foolish to treat dishonestly sophisticated systems of deception as if they are simple; especially when the dishonest people who are dedicated to sophisticated deception are calling upon you to be simple minded. True simplicity is worthy of respect. False complexity is worthy of sophisticated analysis to expose its technology and methodology of deception. The collusive games of mutual self deception which addicts and codependents play are sophisticated and complex; therefore part of the process of coping effectively with their misleading behavior patterns involves understanding their sophistication and complexity in matters of dishonesty. Wise people take calls for simplicity with great caution when the calls come from collusive addicts and codependents; for such calls are likely to be misleading efforts to hide dishonesty behind sophisticated and complex rationalizations. Even in such situations there is a place for the simplicity of child-like love which is honest, direct, and simple in appealing to others to be true to themselves. Love can be simple while seeing through the complexity of misleading games of mutual self deception. Affection can be simple when being emotionally supportive of deceivers, at the same time as it is confronting their dishonesty. True parents can be simple while gently leading childishly complex people into more mature patterns of behavior through integrative and honest dialogue. Simplicity has its merits and its place; yet dishonest simplicity in the face of dishonest sophistication and complexity is not worthy of respect or support. In such a situation dishonest simplicity is but an extension of the dishonest complexity and sophistication which it fails to face with personal and communal integrity. The failure to wisely confront dishonest sophistication and complexity with honestly sophisticated ways of revealing the dynamics of dishonesty, is a big step towards participating in collusive games of mutual self deception along with pity- full codependents and their dependent addicts---all of whom are far more sophisticated and complicated in their dishonesty than they appear to be at first sight! (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================