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 %POSITIVE NEGATIVE ADDICTIVE FEED BACK LOOP HONEST 900726

     Once  the feed-back loop relating to sincerely served
disintegrative ideals and values has started,  it operates
in  what  scientists call a positive feed-back loop  mode.
(See  the  previous  essay.)  The rate of  change  of  the
confused  state is proportional to the degree of confusion
already   achieved;    and   the   consequence   is   what
mathematicians  call an exponential process,  but in  this
case  it is exponential decay caused by a  positive  feed-
back loop process. The mathematical terms convey emotional
meanings  which are opposite to the meanings in  terms  of
personal  and communal integrity.  It is natural that  the
confusion   of   meanings  of  terms   should   contribute
additionally to the growth of confusion.

     When addictive desires and needs seek expression in a
society  which has become an addict,  the people  in  that
society  who  (in addictive ways)  are  trying  to  behave
responsibly (moralistically,  legalistically,  systematic-
ally, ethically,  paternalistically) actually act in  ways
which   further     repress    honest    expressions    of
authentic emotions and convictions.

     When  people  are not permitted  to   be   themselves
honestly  because  they are rejected when they try  to  be
themselves honestly, they naturally seek to be dishonestly
whom  they  think will be  accepted--dishonest  acceptance
seems  to be better than dishonest rejection.  No one  can
with  integrity  try to be someone else  than  themselves.
Thus,   rejection of nonconformists leads to personal  and
communal  disintegration.  Once the disintegration process
is  well under way it is much more difficult to begin  the
recovery  process  than  it would have  been  to  honestly
accept the nonconformists in the first place as the people
whom they could honestly be.

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