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 %FIXATION PREOCCUPATION ANALYSIS MEASURE DICHOTOMY+950401
    %OBJECTIVE ELEMENT FRAGMENT PIECE APART CONTEXT+950401
    %ENVIRONMENT WHOLE INTEGRITY ORGANISM COMMUNITY 950401

     To   the  extent  that  we  are  fixated   upon   and
preoccupied  with: analysis,  measurements,  computations,
dichotomies,  objects,  elements,  fragments,  pieces  and
taking  things  apart---to that extent we are unlikely  to
give  adequate  attention to the whole history of our  own
and  other people's contexts,   environments,   organisms,
communities, persons and their integrity.

     Our fixations and preoccupations can blind us  and/or
be the means by which we blind ourselves to the importance
of  the  whole  histories  of  our contexts, environments,
organisms,    communities,   persons  and  their   diverse
integrities.

     We  can become so fixated and preoccupied with  parts
that  we insist on others presenting us only with parts---
and  that others never present us with any  whole  picture
which  might  threaten our collusive games of mutual  self
deception  with exposure and disrespect.   Specialists and
their  specialized  journals focus  narrowly upon isolated
topics---to  the exclusion of  focusing  upon  integration
and/or personal and communal integrity.

     When   a  community  respects  specialists  who   are
narrowly  fixated  upon  analysis---to  the  exclusion  of
respecting  healthy people who search  for  integrity  and
honesty---the community and its members disintegrate.

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