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  %PROJECT BLAME VIOLENCE SELF OTHER COLLUSION LOVE 901015

     When  we  participate  in collusive games of   mutual
self  deception  we  do violence to our own  personal  and
communal  integrity.    The  addictive aspect of our self,
projects blame outward,   and so blames others for what we
ourselves  have done together.   There is enough truth  in
such  blaming to  justify  the  action of blaming in   the
eyes   of   our  addictive  self;  and so  to  excuse  the
addictive  self  of any responsibility for  the  resultant
consequences,   and thus to keep  our  self  from learning
through the  experience  of failures.

     By  projecting blame for our trials and  tribulations
upon others,   we  often  justify to our addictive  selves
our  tendencies  to  become  violent  towards  each  other
because of our  frustrations  with the consequences of our
collusive   games   of   mutual   self  deception.     Our
addictive    selves   cannot    honestly    express   such
frustration,    for   such  an honest   expression   would
expose  the   dishonesty   of  our  collusive   games   of
mutual self deception.   Because  our addictive selves are
not  free  to  be honest,   we  dishonestly  express   our
frustrations  in  violence against each   other,   and  so
ultimately  in violence against our self,   which  we  see
in   each   other.    In  our  confusion  we   find   self
justification, and the appearance of salvation;  but it is
not honest or real.

     The  way  out  of  our  self-made-prison  is  through
the  acceptance  of the truths which honest love   offers;
yet  because   we   have   accepted   dishonesty   as   an
essential  manipulative   technocratic tool which  we  are
unwilling   to give up,   we find it impossible to  accept
the  truths which honest love offers;   and so we  do  not
leave our self-made-prison of technocratic collusions.  So
we  continue  to seek technocratic  ways  to  escape  from
technocratic   collusions  while turning our back  on  the
insights of Love, Truth, Zen and  other  manifestations of
the  power  to  be  whole  and healthy with  personal  and
communal integrity.

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