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%AVOID DESCRIPTION ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EVIL SIN+980624                                       
   %ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS TECHNOCRACY VALUES+980624       
   %IDEALS IDEAS CONFLICT RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION+980624                                         
%PROBLEMS DILEMMAS TRAGEDIES ROOTS ADDICTIONS BLIND 980624                                                
                                                                                                                               
     The  pervasiveness and persistence of  disintegrative                                                                   
conflicts  and  violence  is often rooted  in  contentious           
people's  refusals  to deal openly and honestly  with  the                                                                  
descriptions of the costs to all of the following:                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
ALIENATION     ESTRANGEMENT     ARROGANCE     VIOLENCE           
                                                                                                                               
EVIL           SIN              TECHNOCRACY   CONFLICTS                                       
                                                                                                                               
DILEMMAS       TRAGEDIES        ADDICTIONS    BLINDNESS                                                
                                                                                                                               
DEAFNESS       IGNORANCE        CONFUSION     ARROGANCE                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
COLLUSIONS     DECEPTION        DISHONESTY    SECRECY 
                                                                                                                               
     When  technocrats  of  various kinds  use  techniques                                                  
which entail costs of  the  above  aspects  of  many human               
relationships --- personal and communal integrity decay.                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     Technocrats   are   preoccupied  with  the   use   of                                                  
manipulative techniques ---  in the defense and alienative                                        
service of ideals, values and goals.                                         
                                                                                                                               
     The  ideals,  values and goals of technocrats  are of                                         
diverse kinds:                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
ENGINEERING       SCIENTIFIC       RELIGIOUS     SEXUAL
                                                                                                                               
SCHOLARLY         POLITICAL        BUSINESS      CULTURAL                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
THEOLOGICAL       PROFESSIONAL     SPIRITUAL     ECONOMIC                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
NATIONAL          TRIBAL           TERRITORIAL   SELFISH                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     Idealists  often play collusive games of mutual self-                            
deception; games which  systematically ignore the costs of 
the    alienation,     estrangement,     excommunications,                                        
banishments,   and isolation which they  engender.    They                                                                     
pretend  that some ideals,  values and goals are worthy of                                         
unlimited respect,   support and worship --- regardless of                                 
the costs in alienation,  estrangement,  excommunications,                                        
banishments and isolation which are engendered through the                                
idolatrous worship  of them.    Descriptions of such costs                                                                     
are taboo  and/or  are ignored.    The people who honestly                                                                  
offer   descriptions  of  the  human  costs   which   they                                            
perceive---   are prophets of integrity,  but such  honest        
prophets are often crucified by technocratic idealists who                                         
are  playing  addictive/collusive games  of  mutual  self-                            
deception. 
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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