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 %RATIONALIZE PROCESS RESPECT DECIDE ACTION EXPRESS+930730
   %COLLUDE ADDICT CODEPEND DISHONEST CONCEAL TRUTH 930730

     Rationalization  is a retrospective process by  which
intelligent and knowledgeable  people seek to  make a past
decision,  action,  thought  process,  expression, desire,
belief,   assumption,   or  attitude  appear   reasonable,
logical,   understandable  or  worthy  of  respect.    The
emphasis  is  upon  appearance, rather  than upon reality.
Rationalization  is  often  not  associated  with  genuine
efforts   to  discover,   clarify  and  share  the  truth.
Rationalization  is  often  associated  with  efforts   to
repress, confuse, misrepresent and withhold the truth.

     Successful  rationalizations  lead people  to  accept
misleading assumptions, attitudes,  statements and thought
patterns  at  face  value  without  critical  thought   or
conversations.   Successful rationalizations often inhibit
critical people's thoughts and conversations in the manner
of  collusive  addicts and their supportive  codependents.
At  its worst rationalization is the process of  violently
defending   a  collusion  with  its  dishonest   paradigm.
Addicts and their codependent supporters are very  skilled
in  the process of rationalization,  and mislead others to
follow  them into the process;  so they become converts to
the paradigm,  collusions,   addictions  and  patterns  of
codependent support thereof.

     The   skillful   involvement   in   the   process  of
rationalization requires a high level of intelligence  and
knowledge.  Young children may have the intelligence,  but
often they have inadequate knowledge to engage  skillfully
in the process of rationalization.    Simple adults of low
intelligence  and  non-academic interests rarely have  the
required intelligence and knowledge to engage in  skillful
rationalization.    Highly  educated people are  far  more
likely  to  have  both the intelligence and the  knowledge
required   for  skillful  engagement  in  the  process  of
rationalization.

     Many  highly  respected leaders have  the  levels  of
education, intelligence and knowledge to engage skillfully
in the process of rationalization.   They may be found  in
major positions  of  leadership  in   schools,   colleges,
universities,  religious organizations,  research centers,
businesses, city government, state government and national
government.

     In  order to deal wisely with skillful  rationalizers
we  need  to be able to recognize,  define,  name and talk
openly  and honestly about what it is  that  rationalizers
are  doing  to  us.    We need to learn  how  to  confront
honestly  and  charitably  their  patterns  of   collusive
dishonesty, addictions and mutual codependent support.  We
need to speak truth to  power which abuses reason,  facts,
logic, and people.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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