This is http://www.essayz.com/b0210021.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.} ========================================================== %TRAGIC POSITIVE EXPONENTIAL FEEDBACK DECAY LOOP+021002 %PROCESS SEQUENCE EVENTS EGOCENTRIC FEARS GREATEST+021002 %THREAT BOTH PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES ISOLATE+021002 %PARANOID PERCEPTION MENTAL ILLNESS DISEASE SICKEN+021002 %SACRIFICE DESTROY ATTACK ELIMINATE PUNISH TRASHED+021002 %SANCTUARY SALVATION THEORY INTEGRATION INTEGRITY 021002 What is the process (sequence of events) which makes egocentric fears become major threats to both personal and communal integrities? 1. An isolated/alienated ego perceives other isolated/alienated egos which are centered narrowly upon themselves, caring only for themselves; and so they are often --- 2. Indifferent to the integrities of all other egos and communities --- and and so they are --- 3. Willing to sacrifice the integrities of other egos without any inhibiting considerations such as authentic-sympathy, true-guilt or authentic-shame. 4. Each ego that is involved in any phase of the above cyclic process --- in self-defense becomes further isolated/alienated from other threatening-egos and each threatening-community of threatening-egos --- in ways which make --- 5. Each ego perceive their situation as even more threatening/dangerous than it really is --- so that each ego is as in #1 above --- and the process (sequence of events) cycles through the above steps again and again with heightened levels of fear and ego-defense each time around. During each cycle the above process (sequence of events) will augment itself by some fraction of its former level of fear, anxiety, and ego-defense each time around --- thereby generating what is describe by various people using language such as: A. A geometric-growth process. B. An exponential-growth process. C. A positive-feed-back-loop process. D. A compound-interest-growth process. E. A run-away-inflation process. F...A population-explosion process. Each such growth/inflation process is characterized by a "doubling-time"; i.e., a number of days, weeks, months or years during which the amount, size, severity, intensity of the focal reality, fear, anxiety, thing, money, population, or other stuff --- DOUBLES EACH TIME AROUND. If that which is DOUBLING EACH TIME AROUND includes any of the following --- the result is that most of the following tend to DOUBLE EACH TIME AROUND --- and there is a pervasive pattern of personal and communal DISINTEGRATIONS: FEAR ANXIETY DEFENSIVENESS ISOLATION ESTRANGEMENT SUSPICION DISTRUST IGNORANCE PREJUDICES BIASES PARANOIA COERCION VIOLENCE NARCISSISM EGO-CENTRICITY SELFISHNESS TENSION CONTENTION SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS ARROGANCE CONFLICT ATTACKS SELFISHNESS BLAMING-OTHER FALSE-SHAME FALSE-GUILT SICKNESS DIS-EASE DISHONESTY COLLUSIONS MENTAL-ILLNESS DOMINATION CORRUPTION GREED NEGLECT INDIFFERENCE ABUSE PARANOIA INSENSITIVITY FATALISM The above pattern of DOUBLINGS can be described in terms of corresponding patterns of DECAYING AWAY of all of the essential foundations for PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES. Each of the above corresponds to an ABSENCE of some essential foundation for PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL INTEGRITY. Each DOUBLING thus corresponds to a DECAYING AWAY of some ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION. The augmentation of self-defense and ego-defense technologies will only make matters worse. For the decay process to be arrested; many people will have to come to recognize, name, describe, talk about, understand, transcend, and subvert their own tendencies to defend their isolated egos/selves --- at the expense of other egos/selves. The above suggests some steps toward a theory of integration, personal integrities and communal integrities. In the absence of such a liberating theory we are likely to be MISLEAD as to what needs to be done --- by "The Domination System" and by our various forms of ignorance, bias, prejudices, and thoughtless traditions which are in keeping with "The Domination System". (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================