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  %DISINTEGRATIVE SIMPLISTIC IDEALISM TRAGIC BITTER 070212
   %FRUITS TREE KNOWLEDGE WHO GOOD EVIL SAVED RIGHT 070212
%WRONG FAILED FALLEN ORIGINAL SIN SINNER BORN FAULT 070212
 %SELF SACRIFICE LOYALTY TENACITY DISCIPLINE ENOUGH 070212
%EXCLUDED MISSING LACKING COMPLEMENTARY IDEALS VIEW 070212
%COMPLEMENTARY MUTUAL COOPERATION COLABORATION LOVE 070212

     Some forms of idealism are helpfully integrative.

     Some forms of idealism are tragicly disintegrative.

     What leads to the different outcomes?

     It all depends upon what ideals,  values, principles,
insights,  attitudes, assumptions, etc.  are included-and-
excluded;  or in what ways they are combined with  varying
degrees of emphasis and/or integration.

     Calls for self sacrifice are not enough.

     Calls for loyalty are not enough.

     Calls for tenacity are not enough.

     Calls for discipline are not enough.

     Calls for communal unity are not enough.

     Calls for obedience are not enough.

     Calls for respect for authority are not enough.

     All  of  the  above  can be  taken  advantage  of  by
domineering  people  in  various  combinations  and   with
various  emphases ---  in the absence of  other  essential
foundations  for  personal  and  communal  integrity   and
integrations.

     Some  of the above may have appropriate places within
a  healthy form of idealism;  but there is a high level of
danger  if  many  of  the above are regarded as  the  most
important  and essential virtues in a particular  form  of
idealism.    In  any healthy form of  idealism  the  above
ideals  and  values will be clearly subordinate  to  other
essential  foundations for personal and communal integrity
and integrations.

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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