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 %PRETEND BEING SUPERIOR HUMILITY DISHONEST COLLUDE 910605

     It   is   disintegrative  to pretend to be  a   being
who   is  superior  to  other people;   when in  fact  one
lacks   self esteem and self confidence.   People who have
healthy  self-esteem  and healthy self-confidence  do  not
pretend   to  be beings who are superior to other  people.
Such people  are humble.   Those  people who pretend to be
beings   who  are superior to other people are  themselves
dishonest people.

     It   is   disintegrative  to pretend to be  a   being
who  is superior to other people because such pretense is:

     1.  Dishonest  because  of  low  self  esteem   being
present.

     2.  Likely  to  undermine other  people's  confidence
and trust in us.

     3.  Likely to put other people on the defensive.

     4.  Bound   to   lead  to  alienation   in   personal
relationships,    undermining   wise  decision-making  and
cooperation  through dishonesty.

     The  tools which are used in trying to  maintain  the
pretense of  being a being who is superior to other people
need  to be recognized as such; e.g.:

     1.  Moral codes  of  conduct tailored to  favor   the
life  styles  and abilities of the pretentiously  superior
beings.

     2.  Legal    systems  administered  by  lawyers   and
legislative    technocrats     who     profit    by    the
sophistication    and complexity   of  the  legal   system
which   they   create,  administer,  adjudicate and  serve
within.

     3.  Religious  rituals which affirm that  the   tools
which  point   to   the  superiority  of  the  pretentious
people  are God-given and of divine origin.

     4.  Patterns    of   rejection,      excommunication,
banishment, ostracism,   threats  and neglect which prompt
others    to  become   participants   in   the   dishonest
pretense  of  the "superior" people.

     5.  Communally    supported,     culturally  approved
and  organizationally   systemic  patterns  of   addictive
and  codependent   behavior  by which collusive  games  of
mutual  self  deception  are  taught  to  each  succeeding
generation.

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