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    %SYSTEMIC DISEASE DISINTEGRATION CHAOS DISORDER+931018
        %COLLUSION ADDICTION CODEPENDENCE DISHONEST 931018

     A  systemic  disease  is one which  infects  a  large
fraction of the powerful members of a community in such  a
way  as  to  render  the community as  a  whole  diseased,
weakened,  disabled---and so unable to cope creatively and
imaginatively  with  the  threat of  the  disease  to  the
personal and communal integrity of those affected.

     A  systemic  disease  cannot  be cured  by  means  of
treatment  of the individuals within a community  if  they
are  considered one at a time apart from each other.   The
systemic nature of the  disease  must be dealt with openly
and honestly to transcend it. The ways in which a systemic
disease undermines the coping ability of a  community as a
whole  must  be  openly and honestly  recognized,   named,
talked about,  and  carefully described---for only then is
is  likely  that  the  threat  to  personal  and  communal
integrity will be dealt with adequately.

     A   systemic  disease  is  not  the  consequence   of
individual behaviors considered in isolation of each other
so  that  blame  can  be assigned to  a  small  number  of
isolated and blame-worthy people.   A  systemic disease is
the consequence of cooperative  community behaviors  which
have threatened the personal and communal integrity of all
members  of  the community.    A  systemic disease is  the
consequence of  corporate  behavior  which  systematically
threatens both personal and communal integrity.   The  sum
effect cannot be understood in terms of the disintegrative
parts  of  the  whole.     The  systemic  disease  can  be
understood only in the light of  examples of true personal
and   communal   integrity   within   the   disintegrating
community.    Healing  occurs  in  the  face  of  systemic
diseases  only  when  communities  as  wholes  openly  and
honestly  recognize,  name,  talk about and  describe  the
features   and  consequences  of  systemic   diseases   as
contrasted  with  individualistic diseases  which  are not
symptomatic of systemic diseases---if such individualistic
diseases really do exist.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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