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%INTERNAL CONFLICT INSTINCT COLLUSIVE PARADIGM LOVE 901028

     People   who  are  trapped  in  collusive   paradigms
experience  internal  conflicts  between  the demands  for
dishonesty within  the collusive paradigm on the one hand,
and their instincts for personal and communal integration.

     Humans  have  evolved as communal organisms  and  the
survival  of   the  individuals  has  depended  upon   the
survival  of   the  community.     Instincts  which  favor
communal   integrity   run  deep  in  the  genetic   pool.
Personal    and    communal   integrity    are     totally
interdependent.   Any paradigm  which  demands  systematic
patterns   of dishonesty threaten the  communal  integrity
which  is  essential  to  survival.    At   an instinctive
level individuals know this fact of life  and death,   and
experience  tension  when they get trapped in  a  paradigm
which  demands complicity with dishonesty  which threatens
the communal integrity.

     Technocratic  paradigms which promise to fix what  is
wrong  with   a   community  and/or its  individuals   are
paradigms  which  call  for  complicity  with   dishonesty
about  the limitations  of  techniques and   technologies.
The   more successful  the  techniques and   technologies,
the  more intense is the internalized conflict between the
vision  of  successful  fix-ation and  the  instinct  that
fixation   leads  to   degradation/disintegration  through
dishonesty.     Being  fixated   upon   the   promises  of
technocratic   fixes   is  a fixation  which  involves  no
successful   delivery   of   the  promises  of  envisioned
fixes. It does involve tensions.

     The  technocrat cannot yield to the calls of love  to
let go of  the  false  visions,    for to do so  would  be
to    be  unfaithful   to   the  technocratic  god.    The
technocrat   is  caught   in a  tensions  which  leads  to
oscillation   between  the   calls   of   love   and   the
violent   rejection   of  the threatening   vision   which
love  presents.     There  is  an  internalized  love/hate
conflict  which  is  expressed in   the  ways   in   which
technologies  are used and abused  in  non-objective  ways
by  people who think they are committed  to  sound  ideals
and values.

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