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%ACCEPT COERCION VIOLENCE MANIPULATION NORMAL MEANS 950929

     We  are  in  trouble if we  have  accepted  coercion,
violence  and  personal manipulations as normal  parts  of
life.   Such acceptance is part of disintegrative patterns
of life.  Often it is not isolated values and ideals which
undermine our personal and communal integrity;  it is  how
we configure our ideals and values into perverse  patterns
which   is   central   to  our   personal   and   communal
disintegration.

     The  acceptance  of coercion,  violence and  personal
manipulations  as  normal  parts  of  life  leads  to  our
configuring  our ideals and values into perverse  patterns
which are disintegrative.   When we are immersed  in  such
perverse patterns it is difficult and seemly impossible to
envision  any configuration of ideals and values in  which
coercion,   violence  and personal manipulations  are  not
accepted  as  parts  of life.    Such  acceptance  blocks,
undermines,  confuses and represses creative visions.   In
the  absence  of creative visions we are often  left  with
merely  making  our  technologies more  sophisticated  and
destructive  through the use of greater amounts of  power,
energy and other resources.

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