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    %COMMUNAL WORK DUTY ESSENTIAL REQUIRE DISHONEST 931010

     Each  community is characterized by what its  members
consider  to  be essential to the continued  life  of  the
community as a whole.   Members of the community regard it
as  essential that they attend to the work of  maintaining
that  which  is most important to the  continuation,   the
survival,   of the community.   That work is  required  in
various  ways.    It  is  the characteristic duty  of  the
members of the community to participate in the work.

     When   a  community  is  collusive,   addictive   and
codependent in  character, the members  of  the  community
consider  that  the maintenance of proper  appearances  is
essential to the continued life of the community as it is.
Thus  it  is  essential that they attend to  the  work  of
maintaining  proper  appearances.     Without  maintaining
proper appearances the community cannot hope to survive as
it is. Thus the required work  is  the work of maintaining
appearances.    The duties of the members of the community
follow from this characteristic task.

     It   is   not  essential  to   the   maintenance   of
appearances  that  personal  and  communal  integrity   be
maintained,   or that  honesty be honored and  respect  be
withheld in the presence of dishonest behavior.   When the
maintenance  of appearances is the most essential  virtue,
it  is  logical  and reasonable to use  dishonesty  as  an
essential  means to the achievement of the ultimate  goal.
To fail to use all means available  in  the service of the
task which  a community regards as the most important task
facing the community,  is to fail utterly.   Those members
of  a community  dedicated to maintaining appearances  are
thus duty bound to be dishonest,  misleading and secretive
in  their work on maintaining community appearances.   For
this  reason the  duties  are  tacit  and  not  explicitly
spelled  out.    It  is  ultimately  important  that   the
dishonesty be made to appear proper.

     In  a community which has drifted into behaving as  a
whole     like  addicts  and   codependents  supporter  of
addicts in their playing of collusive games of mutual self
deception ---there  is  no  dedication to any transcendent
principles which   put  honesty,   personal  integrity  or
communal integrity ahead of expediency  in the service  of
essential appearances.   Members  of such a community find
it very difficult to  find their way  back to the patterns
of  assumptions,   beliefs,   perceptions,    convictions,
attitudes,  expressions and behaviors which  are essential
to  personal and communal integrity.    Members of such  a
community  are the living dead and do not  even  hope  for
true salvation and  the  resurrection of their sick bodies
to new life.   They fear true salvation and honesty as the
terrifying  enemies of all the appearances that  they  are
working  for.     It is treason the show a high  level  of
respect for true salvation or  honesty, and they  have  no
hope  or  expectation of living in  a  true community with
personal and communal integrity.

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