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 %SPACE-SHIP-EARTH PLANET GLOBAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 040716
   %MILITARY ACHIEVE SECURITY ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES 040716
%BELIEFS CONVICTIONS LACK MISS ABSENT INTEGRITY GOD 040716
 %CORRECT RESCUE FLAWED FLASE UNILATERAL COOPERATED 040716
  %ENEMY EVIL LABELD INHERENTLY IMPERFECT DEFECTIVE 040716
 %LIMITED RESOURCES ENERGY KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDINGS 040716

         Space-Ship-Earth's Global Communal Integrity

    Traditional  military efforts to achieve security  are
based upon assumptions, attitudes, beliefs and convictions
which  both  lack integrity and promote  dis-integrations.
Failures  to  achieve  security  within  the   traditional
military  paradigm ---   have not and cannot be  corrected
within the traditional military paradigm.

    The traditional military paradigm is flawed because it
is based upon false assumptions,   attitudes,  beliefs and
convictions; e.g.,

    1.  The  assumptions that security CAN BE ACHIEVED  BY
US  UNILATERALLY;   without cooperating with enemy  people
who are identified and labeled as inherently "EVIL" people
--- and are worthy of destruction; disintegration.

    2.  The  attitude that "we are better than they are";
i.e., superior beings in the eyes of our God.

    3.  The  belief   that our  inadequacies  in  our past
unilateral  efforts to achieve security for ourselves   at
their  expense  ---  have been due to inadequacies in  our
weapons systems and our unilateral destructive powers.

    4.  The  convictions  that  we are  smart  enough  and
powerful  enough  to   have  unilateral access  to  enough
resources  within  Space-Ship-Earth  to  overcome our past
inadequacies   in  our  weapons  systems  and   unilateral
destructive powers.

    The   traditional  foundations  of  our    traditional
military  paradigm  for  our  achieving  security  through
unilateral efforts ---  is flawed because it fails to take
into   account  the  following  facts-of-life  within  our
cosmos:

    1.  We  are  utterly dependent upon the  integrity  of
Space-Ship-Earth   as  a  whole  astronomically   isolated
ecosystem.

    2.  Space-Ship-Earth's  integrity depends in essential
ways   upon the integrities of countless different  inter-
related species --- which cannot long survive in isolation
without each other.

    3.  Meaningful survival   depends   upon  cooperation,
far more than upon unilateral actions.

    4.  It  is  clear  that  there is no accessible  place
apart from Space-Ship-Earth where humans can go to survive
in any meaningful way ---  independent of humans' survival
within Space-Ship-Earth.

    5.  It  is  clear  that   our   traditional   military
paradigm  for  achieving unilateral-security-for-ourselves
at  the  expense-of-other-people  who  are  fundamentally-
"different"-and-"evil"  ---  is based  upon  the following
DISINTEGRATIVE-ELEMENTS of our traditional ways of trying-
to-"get-ahead"  at the expense-of-other-people-and-living-
beings:

    Threats,  Domination,  Coercion,  Violence,   Secrecy,
Destructions,    Dishonesty,    Collusions,    Addictions,
Coalitions, Power-Concentrations, Abuses, Pretentiousness,
Arrogance,       Self-Righteousness,   Unlimited-Resource-
Consumptions, etc.

    6.  We  are  dependent  upon  many   limited-resources
within  Space-Ship-Earth  and  have not been  honest  with
ourselves   and   others   about   the   fact   that   our
Population-Explosion    will   exhaust many of Space-Ship-
Earth's  limited-resources  ---   if we do  not  ourselves
cooperate  and  take  the  necessary  humane   initiatives
required to  stop the EXPONENTIAL-EXPANSION-OF-HUMANITY in
humane ways.

    7.  The  longer  we  wait to cooperate  and  take  the
humane initiatives suggested above ---  the more difficult
it  will  become to move in the direction of  cooperation,
honesty, civility, and collaborative success.

    8.  Continuing  to celebrate  thoughtlessly  our  past
military service and "successes"  ---  will lead to future
total  personal  and communal disintegrations,  no  matter
how superior we feel and think we are.

    9.   Time  is  running  short for the  whole  crew  of
Space-Ship-Earth.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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