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%PERSPECTIVE DICHOTOMOUS LINEAR EXTREMIST EXCLUSIVE+940324
                     %VIRTUOUS ALIENATION OBJECTIVE 940324

     From the  perspectives  of  opposing  extremists  the
people  who are balanced and healthy in  integrative  ways
are  people who are seen as being like the  extremists who
are  perceived  to  be the opposing enemy  who  cannot  be
trusted.    Extremists   cannot  tolerate  being  seen  as
associated with the opposing extremists---so therefore  by
their  logic  they  themselves  must move farther  to  the
opposite extreme so that their own associates will have to
look away from the opposing enemy extremists  to  see them
as  purists  who are unadulterated by appearing to be  far
away from the enemy.

     Compulsive  objectivists  vie with each other  to  be
more objective than each other---so that they will not  be
seen   as  associated  with  the  emotionally   unbalanced
extremists who do not want to be seen as emotionally dead.
The specter  of  the  absurdity  of  the  emotionally dead
compulsive  objectivists  motivates  other people to go to
the    other   extreme---of   being   overly    emotional,
demonstrative  and  unconventional.    Extremists (of  all
kinds)  because of their  dichotomous  assumptions and and
attitudes  work  hard  to  avoid  being seen  against  the
backdrop of each other's extremism---and so they work hard
to avoid  the  healthy realities  of  dynamic  balance and
integrity.

     We need to recognize the  virtues of balance which is
seen as balance, and to avoid the absurdities of all kinds
of extremists  who  are  the  victims  of  exclusivity and
alienation   from  all  that  would  contribute  to  their
enjoyment of dynamically balanced living.

     Healthy purity  and  perfection cannot  be  helpfully
defined  in terms  of exclusivity and dichotomous  thought
patterns.  Personal and communal integrity have to do with
being inter-connected  in integrative patterns of open and
honest communications  within intimate relationships  with
many  different  kinds of people.   They do not have to do
with   dis-association,    separation,   exclusivity   and
alienation.

    See the next essay for related considerations.

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