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   %DYNAMICS REPRESSION SUPPRESSION EMOTIONS AFFECT+940407
       %INTEGRATE REASON THINK AFFECTION REFLECTION+940407
  %REFLEXIVE MORAL INDIFFERENCE SENSITIVE INTELLECT 940407

    We will do well to seek to understand the  motivations
and  dynamics of the processes  by which the intellectual,
rational,  thinking and objective aspects of our lives are
separated  from the emotional,  affective,  reflexive  and
sympathetic aspects of our lives.

    We  may  gain some insights into the  motivations  and
dynamics   of  the processes of separation by  recognizing
that people  who  have   not   actively  integrated  their
intellectual,  rational,   thinking  and objective aspects
with  their emotional,  affective,  reflexive,  moral  and
sympathetic  aspects---are  likely  to  become involved in
monstrous violence and threats of violence.  They separate
themselves   from  other  people  and   become insensitive
manipulators  of  people who are treated as if they    are
just    objects   trapped  in   manipulative     objective
relationships which are devoid of justice and mercy.

    People   often   desensitize  themselves  to   protect
themselves against the emotions which they do not know how
to  integrate  into  being  whole  in  a  community   with
integrity---and   so  they  have  no holy  laws  of  human
compassion or mercy written in their  hearts.    Thus they
can commit rape,  murder,   terrorist  acts  and  terrible
acts  of  war---with little feeling,  regret,   sorrow  or
learning.

    We need to recognize,  name, describe,  articulate and
talk about all the costs to humankind---for our failure to
integrate our emotional,  affective and spiritual lives---
with  our cognitive,  intellectual and rational  lives  of
analytic     understanding,     predictions,     objective
manipulations, and attempting to be in control.

    The  most effective way we have to  protect  ourselves
against  any awareness of the fears,  pains and  suffering
which we cause in others---is to deaden our  awareness  of
our own fears,  pains and suffering;   for our own are the
grounds of any possible sympathy we may have with those of
others   people.      Thus   we    objectify/depersonalize
ourselves and our relationships  as the most effective way
to  mitigate  our own fears,  pains and  suffering---which
might make us sensitive to other people's fears, pains and
suffering.

    We   often   protect   ourselves  by   replacing   our
sympathetic  emotions  (which are  grounded  in   our  own
awareness of our own feelings)  with sophisticated systems
of   rules,  regulations, prohibitions,  prescriptions and
taboos---for  such systems  are   free  of  the  reflexive
complexities of intimate affective  relationships.    Such
sophisticated systems  are  encouraged and  facilitated by
respect for objectivity and all the  scientific  powers of
analytic  understanding,   prediction and  control.    The
dysfunctional  replacement  of  our emotions  with  formal
systems  of  control is often carried out in the  name  of
unbiased  knowledge and  truth---but  the  replacement  is
really carried  out in keeping with the rules of collusive
games  of  mutual  self deception;   in keeping  with  the
fixations of addicts and their supportive codependents.

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