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%TOTAL PERSONAL COMMUNAL DISINTEGRATION NATION SINS 031008
%IDOLS GOD FALSE IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES GOALS ITS 031008
%ADDICTS CODEPENDENT COLLUDERS POWERS THAT BE DEVIL 031008
   %TERRIBLY TRAGIC TERRORISTS UNBALANCED CONTROLER 031008
  %DOMINATION DOMINEERING LEADERS FOLLOWERS VICTIMS 031008
%WORLD WAR EMPIRES OVER EXTENSION CONCENTRATE POWER 031008

     Is it possible for a large majority of the people  in
a   nation  to be terribly and tragically wrong?    Can  a
large majority of the  highly respected people in a nation
be  following influential  leaders  who   are   misleading
the    nation   down  paths   to    the    nearly    total
disintegration of the nation as a whole, and of the people
as individuals?

     Consider the tragic declines of:

     The Roman Empire.

     The Roman Catholic Church before the Reformation.

     The Ottoman Empire.

     Germany during World War I.

     Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia in World War II. 

     The USA during the McCarthy hearings.

     China during the reign of Chairman Mao.

     The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics => USSR.

     The USA during the Vietnam war.

     Clearly  a  large majority of  the  highly  respected
people  in a nation CAN be following  influential  leaders
who  are totally misleading the nation down paths  to  the
nearly total disintegration of the nation as a whole,  and
of the people as individuals!

     How are we to discern if/when a large majority of the
highly  respected  people  in  OUR  nation  ARE  following
influential  leaders who are totally misleading OUR nation
down  paths  to  the nearly total  disintegration  of  OUR
nation  as a whole,  and of us as individuals?   Who  will
believe  us if we say such a tragic thing is happening  to
us?   On what basis  can we with integrity suggest such  a
tragic   turn  of  events?    The  preceding  essays   are
suggestive!
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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