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  %LOYALTY DEDICATION COMMITMENT GROUP TRIBE NATION+950621
    %STATE RELIGION ETHNIC RACE CLIQUE ORGANIZATION+950621
  %PROFESSION FAMILY CHURCH DENOMINATION PHILOSOPHY+950621
   %SECURITY FREEDOM SAFELY VULNERABLE DEFENSE EVIL+950621
%GANG EMPLOY BUSINESS ADDICTIVE ORGANIZATION SPOUSE 950621

     Some  people  are  constantly in search  of  security
within the  context of some group to which they are loyal.
They  lack self esteem which is rooted in their own  being
true  to  themselves and to each other.   They  seek  self
esteem  which  is  rooted in being  with  others  and  for
others---regardless of what the costs may be.   They  seek
others  who are like them in seeking self esteem in  being
with  others  and  for  others.    To  them  loyalty   and
solidarity  with others is more important than are ideals,
values and principles.   To them loyalty is more important
than personal and/or communal integrity.   When the choice
is  between  integrity,   honesty,   health  and  conflict
resolution on the one side---and loyalty to and solidarity
with  some groups of which they are a part;  the choice is
to be loyal in solidarity, no matter what the costs.

     Insecure people have not been offered and/or have not
accepted  security as the freedom to be safely vulnerable.
They  seek  to achieve security through  defenses,   often
working with a group of people who are loyal to each other
and/or  to some narrowly  defined  set of goals which  the
group  seeks  to achieve.  Their groups are more likely to
be  goal-oriented than  to be dedicated to processes which
promote personal and communal integrity.  Their groups are
more likely to be preoccupied with technologies which they
believe can get them to their goals,  than they are likely
to  be  sensitive  to  personal and  communal  integration
and/or  disintegration---and what leads to each.

     The range of kinds of groups within which loyalty and
solidarity  play  the  dominant roles described  above  is
wide:  husband/wife, extended families,  teen-age cliques,
inner city gangs,  tribes,  employer/employee,   churches,
schools, colleges, universities,  cities, states, nations,
ethnic groups,  racial groups, professions, etc.  There is
great  danger  when within such groups the commitments  to
the   groups  and  their  goals  are  not   qualified   by
considerations   of   the  transcendent   importance   of:
personal integrity, communal integrity,  global integrity,
honesty,  healthy  personal relationships,   being true to
self  and others,   learning from mistakes,  learning from
different people, etc.

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