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   %DESTRUCTIVE DISINTEGRATION DEFENSIVE INSECURITY 961215

     Many people live with destructive fears which are not
grounded  in  real threats to their personal  or  communal
integrity.   They are violently defensive because they are
deeply  insecure  in the absence of true  love---for  they
live in a world of dishonest manipulations.  They have not
learned  through  personal experience the value of  giving
and  receiving true security enjoyed as the freedom to  be
safely  vulnerable.    Instead they have  experienced much
destruction  caused  by many people seeking   to   achieve
security     through   defensive    means     which    are
manipulative,     coercive, deceptive, dishonest,  violent
and disintegrative.

     In   the  darkness  of  the  consequences  of   being
motivated  by  their  fears --- many  people  seek  relief
in  additional  technologies and   resource   consumption.
They get  no welcomed relief in the embrace of technology-
--but   rather  the  heightening  of    their   unwelcomed
vulnerability,   insecurity,  alienation,  confusion,  and
hopelessness.

     Fearful people generate fears even where there are no
real threats to their personal or communal integrity---and
because  of those fears they behave in ways which  fulfill
the  expectations  of their fears.    They know of no  way
to mitigate their fears.   They respond to their fears  in
ways  which   exacerbate their their fears---because  they
are  not  honestly   seeking both  personal  and  communal
integrity  for  themselves  and members of  all  of  their
communities.

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