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%WONDERFUL UNQUALIFIED MEANS TECHNOLOGY COMFORT FEW 050914
%GREAT COST MANY POOR WEAK SICK THIRSTY PRISON MANY 050914
%DISINTEGRATIVE DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE INJUSTICE GOOD 050914
 %GREED EVIL RELATIONSHIPS DYSFUNCTIONAL TRADITIONS 050914
%MYTH STORIES LITERAL OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH IT 050914
%BUBER THOU HUMANE EXPERIENCE AUTHORITY DESCRIBE ID 050914

     That  which  is a wonderful and unqualified means  of
comfort and support to some people ---  may exist only  at
great  expense and discomfort to other people who are kept
poor and at great disadvantage by the Economic-System that
facilitates the former;  e.g.,  slavery, segregation,  and
misleading-myths such as the Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence.

     Myths are stories which provide contexts within which
humans create, discover, conceive and maintain their sense
of  significance and meaning.   To the extent that  humans
thereby feel fulfilled --- they regard the myths as "true"
and  maintain them,  even if the myths are not  literally,
objectively,    and   factually   accurate   accounts   of
historic events.

     Other  disintegrative means of comfort and support to
a few people include:

     1.  The  myth that technocrats can "solve"   dilemmas
which are not Technical-Problems.

     2.  The  myth that dilemmas can be "solved"   through
coercion,    violence,    power-concentrations,    wealth-
concentrations, dominance, force, etc.

     3.  Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.

     4.  Addictions   with   their   Teams-of-Codependent-
Supporters.

     5.  Theological-Systems  which  provide  grounds  for
some  people to believe that they are "Superior"  to other
people who are necessarily "Inferior-People".

     6.  Theological-Systems which provide grounds for the
maintenance  of other dichotomies and systems  of  framing
questions,  issues,  and conflicts in terms of "Either-Or"
mandatory: alternatives, questions, choices, etc.

     7.  Inter-Woven  linkages between  The-Fallen-Powers-
That-Be which make them harder to resist with any kind  of
personal and communal integrity.

                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)


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