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 %TRUE PROTECTION DEFENSE THREAT DISINTEGRATION WAR+931030
 %ADDICTIVE VIOLENCE COERCE MANIPULATE TRUTH TERROR+931030
   %FEAR ANXIETY PARANOIA PARALYSIS TERRORISM AVOID 931030

     Often  the paradigms,  technologies and  technocratic
dispositions which dominate  our attempts  at  defense and
protection of what we value  do more damage than could the
reality behind the ostensible  threat which  is so greatly
feared.

     Fear is rarely a good guide in situations where human
conflict  resolution  is what is needed.   Fear  does  not
usually lead us to truly resolve our conflicts: more often
fear  leads us to be defensive in ways which  alienate  us
from ourselves and from each  other---and so leads us into
the  very  disintegrative violence which  we  believe  our
defensiveness will help us to avoid.

     In human relationships what we need to fear includes:

     1.  Alienation and estrangement,
     2.  Ignorance and misunderstanding,
     3.  Collusive games of mutual self deception,
     4.  Addiction and codependent support of addiction,
     5.  Unfounded disintegrative assumptions,
     6.  Repressed unacknowledged emotions and passions,
     7.  Exclusivity and beliefs in personal superiority,
     8.  Seeing persons rather than relationships as evil,
     9.  Balancing violence rather than relationships,
    10.  Neglecting personal and communal integrity,
    11.  The disintegrative leadership of blind fear.

     Some  kinds  of fear can motivate us and lead  us  to
engage in truly integrative behavior  to truly protect our
personal  and communal integrities.   Other kinds of fears
lead  us  to dishonestly engage  in  technocratic  schemes
which  are defensive in ways which undermine our  personal
and  communal integrities.   We need to recognize,   name,
describe  and  talk  about the  differences  between  such
greatly  contrasting kinds of fears;  and the  differences
between the consequences to which they lead.

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