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%SYSTEMIC DILEMMA SECULAR RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT EVIL 050709
 %RESOLVE SOLVE TECHNICAL PROBLEM TRAP DOUBLE BINDS 050709
 %TRADITIONAL POWER WEALTH SCHOLARLY WISDOM PUBLISH 050709
%COMPLICIT RESPONSIBLE INDIFFERENT POOR HUNGRY GOOD 050709
%THIRSTY HOMELSS NAKED UNEMPLOYED PRISON BLIND DEAF 050709
%DOMINANT ATTITUDE PARADIGM FRAME QUESTION ALIENATE 050709

     When  we  become aware  of  Systemic-Dilemmas  within
secular,  religious and governmental institutions ---  and
seek  to  help  to resolve the  Systemic-Dilemmas  we  are
likely to fall into one or more of the following traps:

     1.  Thinking  that there is little that we can do  to
address the Systemic-Dilemmas without first gaining a  lot
of Traditional-Power within the institutions.   In gaining
what  we regard as the necessary Traditional-Power we  are
likely  to  fall  into the trap of  becoming  increasingly
complicit  in being responsible for the  Systemic-Dilemmas
by   buying  into  the  prevailing/dominant:    attitudes,
assumptions,   ways-of-framing-questions-and-issues,  etc.
The "higher-up"  in the power-strucutre we rise;  the more
alienated  we  become  from  those  lower  in  the  power-
structure  and/or  the  victims of the  concentrations  of
power in people like ourselves.

     2.  Thinking  that the experiences of people who  are
poor,  thirsty,  hungry, naked, homeless,  etc.  lack real
authority ---  because all powerful authority is perceived
to  reside higher-up-in-the-power-structure.   The stories
told  by  "the-poor"   about  their  own  experiences  are
discounted  as irrelevant and not authoritative;   because
they  have  not  been  published  in  refereed   scholarly
journals.

     3.  Thinking  that the Systemic-Dilemmas are actually
Technical-Problems  which  can  be  solved  by  technical-
experts   who   know  many   Manipulative-Techniques   for
fulfilling  Properly-Devised-Plans  which  are  chosen  by
people with Great-Power-and-Wisdom-and-Wealth.

     4.  Thinking that because we do not have Great-Power-
and-Wisdom-and-Wealth  there is nothing which we can do to
help  resolve the Systemic-Dilemmas which oppress  us  and
our friends.
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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