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   %ALIENATION PROCESS DYNAMICS CAUSES CONTEXT EVIL 910613

     We traditionally think of alienation as a condition.

     We would do well to think of alienation as a process.

     We   need   to   understand  the  dynamics  of    the
process   of alienation in order to be able to  understand
the  condition  of  alienation  which  is  a   result   of
the  process  of alienation.

     Alienation is an aspect of human relationships. It is
also  an  aspect  of  the condition  of  persons  who  are
participants  in  the  relationships of  alienation.    We
cannot  understand alienation as a condition of a  person;
for  alienation has to  do with the changing relationships
between  people.   In the  absence  of  any  relationships
between   people  the concept of alienation would make  no
sense.    The reality of alienation  can  make  sense only
within   the  context  of understanding the  processes  of
personal relationships.

     Alienation  has to do with the break-down of open and
hones    communication    within   human    relationships.
Communication  may  continue  but  only  in  conventional,
conformal,  formal, traditional, ritualistic,  legalistic,
objective,  analytic, dishonest,   deceptive,   misleading
and     other     less-than-integrative    ways.       Or,
communication  may  be  reduced to an  absolute   minimum;
participants  seeking to avoid as  much  communication  as
they can avoid.

     When communication breaks down there is a tendency to
shift   to    coercive,      manipulative   and    violent
forms of communication:    threats,  manipulative  offers,
punitive actions,   terrorism,   criminal actions and war.
It   is  difficult to avoid all  forms  of  communication;
maybe  it  is impossible for humans to avoid all forms  of
communication.   We  can chose what forms of communication
to  use,   and  in that  choosing we chose the quality  of
our individual  and collective lives.

     All  too  often the processes of human  relationships
lead   to   decreasing  levels  of  openness,     honesty,
understanding  and sympathy in human communications.    To
promote  personal  and  communal  integrity   we  need  to
understand   the   conditions  and   circumstances   which
promote  the decay of the  quality of  our  communication,
and  understand  the conditions  and  circumstances  which
promote   the   improvement   in  the  quality   of    our
communications.    The  quality  of  communications rarely
remains constant.  In the absence  of  integrative efforts
the   quality  of  communications  decays.     It    takes
integrative   efforts   to   maintain  open   and   honest
communications.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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