This is http://www.essayz.com/a9608191.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATIVE PARADIGM LACK COMMITMENT 960819 Often paradigms have lacked coherence, internal integrity. Paradigms have promoted respect for conflicting ideals and values---without concern for resolving those conflicts. Such is the case when there is within the paradigm no commitment to promoting personal and communal integrity. In such cases paradigms are likely to promote personal and communal disintegration; and thus eventually their own demise --- unless the mistake is recognized, named, described and talked about. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================