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   %TRAGIC LEAD HEALTH SICK COMBINE MIX UNION VALUE 911222

     There are some combinations, mixture and unions which
are  integrative;   and some which are  disintegrative  in
tragic ways.  New connections produce new images which may
lead  us towards personal and communal integrity;  or  may
lead us in tragic ways towards sickness and disease.

     More  often  than  not what which is new  is  new  by
virtue  of  being  a new  combination,   mixture,   union,
connection,    or  organization  of  previously   existing
elements;   rather  than by virtue of being  new  elements
which had not existed before.

     In these consideration the "elements"  include ideas,
ideals,   values,  and goals;  and the leaders who  embody
them.

     The new may also include new technologies which arise
out  of  new  combinations  which  lead  to  new  ways  to
manipulate objects and people; and which thus generate new
opportunities,  possibilities,  and dilemmas pertaining to
the use of the new technologies.   New technologies do not
resolve dilemmas or conflicts;  more often than not,  they
generate more dilemmas and conflicts than they resolve.

     New  technologies  do  not  provide  means  to  avoid
tragedies;  for tragedies have to do with hidden conflicts
between ideas,  ideals,  values and goals which are served
in  conflicting ways by people who are using  technologies
to  the  best of their abilities.   Tragedies are  not  by
unrecognized, unarticulated and unresolved conflicts among
our ideas, ideals, values and goals.

     We  need new images of what it might be like to be  a
community   characterized   by   personal   and   communal
integrity.    The  new images are likely  to  involve  new
combinations, mixtures, unions and connections of existing
ideas, ideals, values and goals; with different priorities
among them than we have traditionally had.

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