This is http://www.essayz.com/a9804291.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.} ========================================================== %RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE FRAGMENTIVE EXTREMISTS WAY+980429 %CORRELATED PERSONALITY CHARACTER TRAITS ASSUMPTION+980429 %PREOCCUPATION ATTITUDE PRIORITIES EMOTION THINKING 980429 We will be well and do well when we recognize, name and describe the characteristics of fragmentive extremists and refrain from granting them respect, honor and power; for granting them respect, honor and power leads to personal and communal fragmentation and disintegration. The following are suggestive of characteristics of fragmentive extremists. Each person needs to consider such characteristics and recognize, name and describe those characteristics which most are often and to the greatest extent warning signs regarding behaviors which lead to personal and communal fragmentation and disintegration. 1. Wanting to formalize all people's perceptions of what is dangerous to respect, honor and empower --- for formalization runs the risk of empowering extremists to manipulate perceptions --- so as to control many people. 2. Preoccupations with issues of control; e.g. who is in control, who is not in control, who should be in control; how people are controlled, what people are controlled, what people are not under controls, what the purposes of control are, who is evading controls, who does not respect proper controls, etc. 3. Little respect for: privacy, intimacy, honesty, openness, dialogue, listening, responsiveness, creativity, spontaneity, relaxation, meditation, imagination, etc. 4. Respect for the following as manipulative means: punishments, shame, guilt, judgements, condemnations, excommunication, isolation, alienation, snubbing, exclusion, coercion, violence, etc. 5. Failure to recognize and acknowledge the differences between dilemmas which cannot be solved as technical problems are; and technical problems which can be solved through technological manipulations. 6. Failure to recognize and acknowledge the differences between misfortune which is random and inexplicable --- and tragedies which flow from honoring and respecting conflicting ideals, values, and goals; and so failing to resolve conflicts among them. 7. Narrowing attention upon very few concerns ---to the exclusion of giving attention to complementary concerns which are essential to overall balance and health. 8. Narrowing attention to either emotional or intellectual considerations --- to the exclusion of giving attention to the other kind of consideration. 9. Reducing complicated questions which have to do with full spectrums of possibilities and alternatives --- to a small number of either/or dichotomies and demanding only either/or responses to them. 10. Willingness to concentrate decision making power into the hands of very few people --- while minimizing the ways in which most people can influence outcomes of decision making procedures. 11. Respect for misleading behaviors, deceptive acting, dishonesty, lying, pretense, and arrogant behaviors --- on the part of manipulative people. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================