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  %SIMPLISTIC DOMINEERING LEADERS VIOLENCE COERCION 040116
 %COLLUSIONS GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION POWERS LAW 040116
 %LITERAL WORDS GODS SCRIPTURE INTERPRETATION LOVER 040116
 %SEXUAL ABUSE TRUTHS PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS ADDICTS 040116
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     The ability of each community 
     
       (geographic, religious, political, scholarly, 
       scientific, cultural, etc.) 
     
         to respond wisely and prudently to major 
         environmental changes 

           (geographic, religious, political, scholarly, 
           scientific,  cultural,  objective, subjective, 
           reflexive, etc.) 

             is  tragically undermined (in the  sense  of 
             Greek tragic dramas) 

                                                    

               by  domineering  leaders  who  are  simple-
               minded  and/or simplistic in their ways  of 
               dealing     with     the     absence     of 
               coherence/integrity    in   their    random 
               collections of favorite: scriptures,  laws, 
               prescriptions,  proscriptions,      taboos, 
               cosmologies,    mythologies,    traditions, 
               teachings, stories, descriptions, parables, 
               similes,  theories,  hypotheses, beliefs, 
               doctrines,    and   required   confessional 
               statements. 
               

                                                    
     
     The tragedies pointed to above flow from:
     
     1.  The  inability of simple-minded/simplistic people 
to  deal openly,   honestly,   wisely,   graciously,   and 
prudently with complex: 
     
        people,   situations,   relationships,  conflicts, 
        systems, analyses, interactions, cause-and-effect 
        patterns, ecosystems, languages, mathematics, etc.
     
     2.  Treating that which is complex --- exclusively in 
terms   of   either/or  questions/responses;   i.e.,    in 
dichotomous terms. 

     3.  Domineering and simplistic leaders promoting  and 
facilitating  dishonesty ---  by  forcing wise and prudent 
members  of  the  community  (who are  well  educated  and 
inFORMed) to conFORM their thought  and  behavior patterns 
to  the  simplistic thought and behavior patterns  of  the 
simplistic  leaders;   e.g.,  by demanding that  wise  and 
prudent  people  publicly  recite  incoherent  religious 
doctrines and "beliefs-statements" which they do not truly 
believe.  

     4.  Domineering  and simplistic leaders  abusing  the 
powers-of-elective-offices  to promote and facilitate  the 
creation  and maintenance of:  collusive-games-of-mutual-
self-deception,   addictive-codependent-relationships  and 
other  diverse  "fallen-powers-that-be"  as  described  by 
Walter Wink in his book "The Powers That Be". 

     To  deal  wisely  and prudently  with  the  tragedies 
pointed  to  above  ---  we  must   transcend  simplistic: 
leadership,   thinking  and behavior-patterns.    We  must 
select  and elect gracious  leaders  who are competent  to 
deal openly and  wisely  with  the  complexities of humane 
relationships and living.   Such leaders will be dedicated 
to facilitating and promoting  both  personal and communal 
integrities; rather than  to facilitating  and   promoting 
simplistic patterns  of:  arrogance,   self-righteousness, 
domination, and dishonesty. 

     To   enjoy   peace/shalom   we   must   now   select/ 
elect  leaders,    means,    tools and  technologies  that 
demonstrate  peace  and  shalom.   We  cannot  ever  enjoy 
peace/shalom  if we continue   to  select/elect   leaders,   
means,    tools  and technologies  that now   demonstrate:   
arrogance,   self-righteousness,  terrorism,  war,   guns,  
bombs,       coercion,      violence,          dishonesty,     
exclusivity,        domination,     dichotomous-questions,       
dichotomous-responses,    excom-munications,   alienation,  
confusion, ignorance, prejudice, etc.    Peace is a way of 
life/living,   not  a destination or goal   we  intend  to 
achieve  in  ways which are not     peace-full.      True-
Lovers   in-Love   demonstrate peace/shalom.   Domineering   
leaders    in-Fear   demonstrate    dishonesty,   coercion   
and     violence    by    sacrificing    the     essential 
foundations   for   personal   and   communal integrities.  
Idolatry  is  not  the way  to   true  peace.    Idolaters 
exclude  from  their   lives  many  complementary  people,   
ideals,  values,  principles and experiences --- which cry  
out  for  gracious integration into the fearful  lives  of 
domineering idolaters. 
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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