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%FUNDAMENTAL ALIENATIVE PARADIGM LACK TRUE DIALOGUE+970310
%OPEN HONESTY REFLEXIVE RESPONSE REPRESS VIOLENCE+970310
%ROOT EVIL GOODNESS RULES LAWS CODES COMMAND SIN+970310
%BEWARE UNBALANCED SPECIALIZATION LACK UNIQUENESS 970310
Some legislative people live in terms of
fundamentally alienative paradigms which emphasize
rules, laws, codes, commandments, judgements,
condemnations, guilt, shame, etc. --- in the
absence of any emphasis upon the importance of open
and honest dialogue about people's own personal
experiences, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, hopes,
aspirations, desires, fears, etc. Such legislative
people engender alienative relationships which are
evil---for alienation is the essence and root of all evil.
Alienation and evil relationships flow from
emphasizing considerations which do not include respect
for open and honest dialogue about what is unique to each
person and each person's experience. No matter how
respectable each of a set of considerations may be
individually---they will be alienative/evil when
respected together in the absence of respect for open and
honest dialogue about what is unique to each person.
Attempting to achieve "transcendence" by focusing
ONLY upon what is "universal" and "general" will lead to
doing violence to the integrity of unique persons and
communities --- who are growing and changing in healthy,
and creative ways which promote both personal and
communal integrity. IDEAL FORMS are not unique.
Focusing ONLY upon IDEAL FORMS of behavior does
violence to unique creative people who do not
conform themselves to articulated IDEAL FORMS. The
essence of that which is good is not to be found in
coercive conformity to ideal forms --- for emphasizing
conformity is bound to lead to violence.
We cannot control evil by emphasizing conformity to
good ideal forms --- in the absence of balanced emphasis
upon the importance of giving and accepting gifts of
the freedom to be safely vulnerable in open and
honest dialogue about what is unique to each person.
Specialization in emphasis leads to imbalance and so
to personal and communal disintegration. Specialists
often lack integrity --- and so we should always beware
of granting uncritical respect to specialists who are
unaware of how unbalanced they are. Ignorance flows from
unbalanced specialization in the absence of open and
honest dialogue --- with unique people who differ from us
in important ways ---- which complement us in ways which
will help to make us whole people/communities of
integrity.
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