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 %TOLERATE ACCEPT ALIENATION REPRESSION VALUE IDEAL 910428

     We may gain important insights into the integrity, or
lack of integrity,   in our system of values,   ideals and
goals;  by  noting the extent to which our system  permits
us  to be indifferent   towards  disintegrative  realities
such  as personal:

    alienation, repression, and violence,

manipulation, coercion, and misunderstanding,

  collusions, addictions, and codependency,

controllers, excommunications, and rejections,

       use, abuse, and objectification.

 neglect, indifference, and desensitization.

     When   we  or  others  feel  free  to  be   generally
indifferent  towards  such disintegrative realities,    we
are  bound  to disintegrate.    We cannot prevent all such
disintegrative  realities,     and   it  is  dangerous  to
pretend  that   we  can prevent  all  such  disintegrative
realities.    Yet,   it  is equally dangerous to accept  a
system of values, ideals and goals  which  leads people to
be   indifferent    towards   the  threats    which   such
disintegrative realities  pose.   Such indifference breeds
disintegrative   attitudes,    assumptions,     reasoning,
decisions and behaviors.

     We  need  to  seek  to develop patterns  of  personal
and communal  values,   ideals and goals which lead us  to
be realistic  with ourselves and others about what we  can
do    about     disintegrative    realities;       neither
indifferent  towards    them  as   a   futile   protection
against       over-responsibility;     nor    compulsively
preoccupied  with each and every  disintegrative  reality,
as something we must  deal with, control and/or prevent.

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