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  %EXCLUSIVITY PARADIGM STRATEGY PERSONAL INTEGRITY+980117                       
 %COMMUNAL DYSFUNCTION GOOD EVIL RITUAL PURITY CODE+980117                                       
 %POLLUTE SICKNESS DISEASE ANXIETY TENSION CONFLICT+980117                                              
 %RELIGIOUS SELF OTHER RIGHTEOUSNESS RELATIONS SINS+980117       
  %FEAR ALIENATION REJECTION EXCOMMUNICATION ALIENS 980117                                        
                                                                                                                               
     Exclusivity is a dysfunctional strategy for promoting                       
personal and communal integrity.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     Often  people  have  tried to  promote  personal  and                                                                 
communal integrity by:                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Separating the "good" from the "evil".                                       
     2.  Rituals of "purification" which seek to get rid                                                                       
         of "pollutants" which make people "bad" people.                                                                    
     3.  Excluding from their communities people who are                       
         condemned for engaging in proscribed behaviors.                                                       
     4.  Excluding people who are condemned for not                       
         engaging in prescribed behaviors.                                                       
     5.  Promoting fear/distrust of people who are                                                                    
         different.                                     
     6.  Proving themselves to be "better" than "others".    
     7.  Showing "others" to be "defective".                                               
     8.  Appearing to conform to standards for acceptance.         
     9.  Wearing masks which hide unacceptable aspects.         
     10. Forming exclusive organizations, clubs, churches,                       
         businesses, schools, neighborhoods, etc.                                                                              
     11. Striving for perfection with perfect standards.                                                                       
     12. Eliminating human failures regarded as evil.                                 
     13. Compulsively focusing upon disintegrative acts.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     Exclusive   people  fail  to  be  honest  about   how                       
exclusivity  tears people apart---both as individuals  and                       
as  members of communities.   Exclusivity undermines  open                       
and honest dialogue,  friendships,  and intimacy which are                     
essential to personal and communal integrity.  Exclusivity                  
leads people to engage in activities which are  dishonest,                                                                  
coercive  and  violent ---  engendering  alienation  which           
grows   exponentially,    because   alienation   engenders                          
alienative behaviors.                                        
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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