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   %ROOTS DISINTEGRATION IDEALS VALUES GOALS ADDICT 910427

     The roots of  disintegration may be  found in ideals,
values  and  goals which give inadequate consideration  to
what   is  essential for personal and communal  integrity.
The   roots lie  in particular forms of neglect which  are
born not  of indolence, but of distraction.

     The ideals, values and goals in which we may find the
root   of   disintegration   distract  people   who    are
addicted   to  them;    they  distract such  people   from
giving   adequate consideration  to  what   is   essential
for  personal  and communal integrity.

     Such people are  too busy fixing things and people to
give  adequate   consideration  to what  is  essential  to
personal  and   communal  integrity.    Such  people   are
addicted   to fixing,    controlling,    manipulating  and
improving   upon  things  as things,  and upon  people  as
things.

     Addictive  people  keep  themselves so  fixated  upon
the fulfillment of their ideals,  values and goals;   that
they   have  no  time  or  energy  to  reflect  upon   the
consequences  of their  fixation.   Some of their  ideals,
values   and   goals  call   for  the  avoidance  of  such
reflection;    because  such reflection  would reveal  the
lack of integrity in the  set of ideals,  values and goals
which drive such people.

     Each disintegrative set of ideals,   values and goals
works  to  protect itself from exposure as a system  which
lacks   integrity.     It   entails    dishonesty    which
conceals   the dishonesty.    It  is a  reflexive  system,
even   if   it   is embodied in  an  ostensibly  objective
scientist.

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