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  %IMITATE COERCIVE ROLES DRAMA PRETEND BEING OTHER+981003                                                             
   %DISHONEST COLLUSION ARROGANT SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS 981003       
                                                                                                                               
     Humans often cope through imitation; playing roles in                                
imitation of admired other people.  Children learn through                                
imitation  of  admired parents,  other  adults  and  other                                                               
children.    Through freely chosen imitation people  learn                                
how to get along in coherent ways.      
                                                                                                                               
     When  people do not get along in coherent  ways  some      
people  seek  to  impose  imitation which  is  not  freely                                                                    
chosen;    for  imitation seems to be the key  to  getting                                                                     
along in  coherent ways.    However,   if imitation is not      
freely  chosen ---  it does not lead well to getting along                                                                     
in   coherent  ways;    imitation  it   may    lead     to      
coercion,   conflict,   contentiousness,   tensions,   and                
violence.           
                                                                                                                               
     Personal and communal well-being and coherence depend                                                             
critically  upon  people  expressing  their  own  personal                   
potentialities for integrity in freely chosen ways.   When      
people  seek to impose thoughts,  attitudes,  perceptions,        
and   behavior  patterns ---   the attempt to do so   sets                                                       
up  adversarial  relationships.     The possibilities   of                                                              
people  finding    integrative    ways   of     expressing      
their potentialities  are  thus  reduced.     Attempts  to                                                                     
impose  imitative  behaviors are usually  tragic  attempts                                                       
which bear bitter fruit. We may know them by their fruits!                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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