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   %FALSE APPEARANCE EXCLUSIVE INTEGRITY LOGIC FAIL 901016

     Beware  of a false appearance of integrity  which  is
achieve through dishonest exclusivity.

     People   may   include  in  their  lives  only  those
aspects  of reality  which  are not in conflict with  each
other.     To promote  harmony  by  excluding  conflicting
elements  is   to play  a  game of mutual self  deception.
Such  harmony   and peace  is  not  real,   but rather  an
appearance  achieved through dishonest exclusivity.

     The nice country club where only white members have a
nice  time  together  (in a city where over  half  of  the
population is black)  is a country club which achieves the
appearance of harmony through dishonest exclusivity.

     The nice church where only wealthy members arrange to
have  nice  religious  experiences  together  and  confirm
each  other's  salvation in the absence of poorer  people,
is   a com-unity which is without real unity;   and so the
church  is   a  lie because it  achieves  harmony  through
subtle forms of exclusivity.

     The    logical   profession   which   achieves    the
appearance   of logic,    reason and intelligence  through
the  exclusion  of the   consideration  of   non-objective
realities,     is  a collusive profession which is playing
games of mutual self deception  in  its  exclusive efforts
to  appear  to  have integrity.

     Integrity in the absence of balance, inclusivity, and
love  is   a false appearance.   It is not enough  that  a
community  be  harmonious through the absence of conflict.
It  is  not  enough  that  all  members  of  an  exclusive
community   like each  other and get along well with  each
other.    It  is  not  enough that  there  be  no  evident
violence.

     Disintegration  can be occurring at the boundaries of
any  coherent  community  by virtue of what is   excluded.
The internal  appearance of integrity is a false pretense,
if   it    is   achieved   through    exclusivity    which
occasions   disintegration   at  the  boundaries  of   the
community  which only  appears  to have integrity.   It is
not   enough  that people inside the  exclusive  community
perceive  it to  have integrity.    The integrity  is  not
real  and honest,   unless many  people  whose  lives  are
lived   mostly  outside  the community  have  good  reason
for regarding  the  community with  respect;   because  of
its   open  and  honest   ways   of  treating  them   with
integrity.

     Communities   with  real integrity treat members   of
their   larger  community  with  honesty  and   integrity.
Communities  with  only  the appearance of integrity treat
members  of their larger community in exclusive ways which
demonstrate the absence of true love.   Beware of a  false
appearance  of  communal  integrity,   which  is  achieved
through   dishonest  exclusivity   designed   to   exclude
conflict  rather  than resolve conflict.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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