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     %IMPORTANT RECOGNIZE SYSTEMIC PERSONAL PROBLEM 920804

     It  is  important for leaders of a community and  the
members of a community to recognize the difference between
systemic community problems and dilemmas on the one  hand,
and  personal  problems and dilemmas which are  relatively
unique from person to person. It is not very effective for
a large fraction of the members of a community to struggle
each in  isolation over dilemmas and  problems  which they
experience as unique to themselves---but  which are rooted
in systemic aspects of the community, such as:

     1.  Disintegrative ideals and values.
     2.  Systemic addictions and codependencies.
     3.  Institutionalized prejudice/discrimination.
     4.  Corrupt political institutions.
     5.  Corrupt religious leadership.
     6.  Scientists addicted to pure research.
     7.  Self-serving professions.
     8.  Systemic sex discrimination.
     9.  Systemic  repression  of discussion of sexuality.
    10.  Unchallenged                          collusions.
    11.  Compulsive   objectivity   and    quantification.
    12.  Thoughtless   dedication   to   endless   growth.
    13.  Dishonesty about limited resources/possibilities.
    14.  Dishonesty about  disease,   mortality  &  death.
    15.  Dishonesty  about  mistakes,   errors,  failures.
    16.  Requirements   of   appearance   of   conformity.
    17.  Legalized                             injustices.
    18.  Communal  neglect  of  children's welfare/health.
    19.  Grossly  unbalanced   distribution   of   wealth.
    20.  Violations of personal integrity.

     Systemic  dilemmas and problems cannot be  recognized
if the  individual members of a community do not feel free
to   communicate  honestly  with  each  other,   including
relative strangers, what they are experiencing.

     Systemic  dilemmas and problems cannot be  recognized
if  the  community is trapped in the  pattern  of  blaming
individuals   for  all  their  individual   problems   and
dilemmas; regarding them as individualistic punishment for
previous individualistic sins.

     Systemic  dilemmas and problems cannot be  recognized
if  the  community  does  not  overtly  affirm  that  such
systemic realities probably do exist within the community,
and its leaders seek  to  publicly identify what the  most
debilitating systemic realities are.

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