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   %ULTIMATE IMPORTANCE APPEARANCES COLLUSIONS RULE 921020

     In  the presence of collusions our appearances become
of ultimate  importance,   and  our  realities are of less
importance.   Rules and  regulations  focus  more upon our
appearances,  than upon our realities. It becomes improper
to appear (or let others get the impression that)  one has
engaged in improper behavior.  Then people  seek to appear
to be conforming properly;  and suspicions to the contrary
are   everywhere.    Such   suspicions   elicit    further
manipulative  efforts  which intensify  the  suspicions in
exponential  ways  which  undermine personal and  communal
integrity.

     The  development  of more sophisticated  technologies
and manipulative procedures will not help us transcend the
technocratic tendencies of suspicious people who focus our
attention, energies and time upon appearances. Our efforts
to protect ourselves against each other's manipulations of
appearances,  in turn engender higher levels of suspicious
insecurity, and so generate defensive efforts which offend
those  who  are  suspected.   The  paradigm of  suspicious
manipulation  of appearances and of  defense  and  offense
goes round and round in a  viscous disintegrative cycle---
until all  energy  has  been dissipated into useless chaos
and heat;  illustrating  the Second Law of  Thermodynamics
which  describes the  generation  of entropy  in  isolated
systems and circumstances.

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