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%MAINTAIN VISION FANTASY BOUNDARIES COLLUSIONS VIEW+980614                                                   
  %LIMITED RESOURCE ALLOCATION POLITICS TERRITORIES+980614                                                            
%GEOGRAPHY WATER FOOD ENERGY AIR MINERALS FUELS SIN+980614                                                                     
%BOUNDARIES POWER CORRUPTION MILITARY WAR DOMINANCE 980614                                             
                                                                                                                               
     Some  communities seek to maintain artificial visions                                                                
and fantasies  ---  pretending that what they work hard to                                                                     
maintain is normal,  natural, authentic, and eternal.   On   
the boundaries of such communities are people who have  to                                                                
work especially hard to maintain the vision  and  fantasy.                                                                     
It  is  especially  hard for them ---   because  they  are                          
closest to the  evidence  that  beyond them is a world  in                                                                     
which artificial visions and fantasies are  recognized  as                                                                     
such;   rather  than  being maintained by people  who  are                                                             
playing collusive games of mutual self-deception. 
                                                                                                                               
     It   is  people  on  the  boundaries   of   collusive                                                   
communities who are sorely tested and tried.  Those at the                                                                
core of the collusive communities insulate themselves from    
the  realities  of  life ---   by  keeping  away  from the      
boundaries where truths regarding  artificiality are  most                                 
clearly and forcefully present.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     Usually  the  people who are  maintaining  artificial                                                                    
visions and realities do not have within their communities                             
all  the necessary scarce resources with which to maintain                                                            
what  they  cherish.   They depend on the  importation  of                                                                     
scarce resources (water,  food, fresh air, energy,  fuels,                                                            
minerals, manufactured goods, etc.)  in ways which they do      
not  acknowledge openly and honestly.    Often they resort                                                                  
to coercion, violence,  and domineering procedures to take           
the  essential scarce resources away from the  surrounding      
territories --- where there are people who do not have the                                                                    
power,   knowledge,   will and tools ---  to  prevent  the                                             
removal   of  resources  from  their  territories.    Thus                                                            
stealing continues.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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