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%MISLEADING COMMUNAL PRIORITIES DICHOTOMIES 990721
Often members of informal communities mislead each
other by focusing upon dichotomous issues and diversionary
priorities. Often what is important is what they do not
do, rather than what they actually do.
In many situations what is called for is communal
cooperation in assuring that the most important needs of
the members of the extended community are met; e.g, good
quality and adequate: food, water, air, health care,
shelter, fellowship, etc. Members of some communities
FAIL TO COOPERATE in assuring the meeting of those needs
for all members of their extended community. MEMBERS GO
THEIR INDIVIDUAL SEPARATE WAYS and NEGLECT to cooperate.
Cooperation is lacking in meeting basic needs, and instead
members support each other in focusing attention on how
good they are themselves --- because of how they have
correctly taken sides in contests over who is most
righteous and self-righteous. Such contests distract
attention away from the importance of communal cooperation
in meeting basic human needs.
Dichotomous thinking plays a significant role in
misleading people --- away from considering in a communal
way what is more important than what they are doing, so as
to be able communally to set wise priorities in regards to
how the community as a whole focuses its attention and
spends its limited time, energies and resources.
Dichotomous people narrow their concerns to questions and
answers which focus upon: either/or, yes/no, right/wrong,
accepted/rejected, included/excluded and good/evil.
If there is inadequate cooperation --- important
needs are likely to be ignored. Members of a community
need to come together on a regular basis to look at the
full spectrum of needs in the community --- to discern
which needs are being neglected. Individuals acting as
individuals cannot responsibly fulfill this need for
communal discernment of neglected priorities. It is a
need which can be fulfilled only within the contexts of
communal meetings and cooperation. The responsibility
rests with the whole community --- acting as an integrated
whole. It is a responsibility which cannot be fulfilled
by even the "best" of individuals acting "responsibly".
It is irresponsible for the "best" of individuals to fail
to cooperate communally in helping the community acting as
an integrated whole --- to fulfill its responsibility in
this matter.
When the "best" of the individuals in a community are
preoccupied with how "good" they --- are because of how
they avoid "bad" individual behaviors, and how good they
are because of how they concentrate on "good" individual
behaviors; then is when the community as a whole and its
individual members disintegrate. All fall apart in
contentious conflicts and alienative coercion. They fall
because they fail to recognize the tragic importance of
working for reconciliation and the transcendence of
alienative behavior patterns.
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