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 %PARADIGM SHIFT POWER CONTROL WIN CONTEST CONFLICT 920524

     When  a paradigm-shift occurs the rules of many games
are  changed,  power shifts,  and contests are engaged  in
according  to new requirements on new playing fields,  and
conflicts  are  resolved  in new ways.   People  who  were
winners,   "on-top"   and "in-power"   according  to  old-
paradigms often resist integrative paradigm-shifts.

     Old-paradigm  winners want to keep the old rules  and
resist  creative efforts of new-paradigm people  to  shift
the paradigm   from   a   disintegrative-paradigm   to  an
integrative-paradigm.  Old-paradigm winners want arguments
fought  out according to the rules under which  they  have
often  won arguments.   Old-paradigm victors in  conflicts
want conflicts settled according to the rules under  which
they  have  been  victors,   and other  people  have  been
vanquished.  A paradigm-shift threatens the false sense of
security of old-paradigm victors,  and they  in mis-guided
"self-interest" seek to prevent the transcendence of their
old-paradigm when they are confronted with the possibility
of an integrative paradigm-shift.

     New-paradigm people  who are seeking to  shift  human
relationships  to  creative  integration  of  peoples  and
communities; need to  be  sensitive to  and understand the
thought patterns and attitudes of  conservative people who
want to conserve the old-paradigm within  which they  have
achieved such power, respect,  recognition and self-esteem
as  they  cling to.   They need to  be  sensitive  to  the
manipulative techniques which such people are bound to use
in protecting their old  paradigm  against  an integrative
paradigm-shift;  from a disintegrative-paradigm to a truly
integrative-paradigm.  They  need  to  be sensitive to the
old-paradigm people as persons who are imprisoned by their
old successes and by the means through which they achieved
their old successes.

     Paradigm-shifts  often have to do with whether  there
will be people, or with which people will be "on top"  and
"on the bottom".   Old-paradigm people who are  accustomed
to being "on top"  regard being "on top"  to  be  the only
alternative to being "on the bottom",  and so they  resist
any   paradigm-shift  which  would  deprive  them  of  the
privilege  of  being  "on top";   resisting  therefor  any
integrative  paradigm-shift which would eliminate  respect
for  the categories "on top"  and "on the bottom".    They
resist any integrative paradigm-shift in which  all people
would learn to  "GET TO YES"  together through cooperative
efforts in open  and honest dialogue.    They  resist true
conflict  resolution,  and seek to win  conflicts  at  the
expense  of  others.     Thus  they  work  in  ways  which
perpetuate  conflicts,  violence,  and  the  violation  of
personal and communal integrity.

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