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%ASSESSING RELATIVE ADVANTAGES MEANS FOCAL CONCERNS 070504
%BEING ABLE ROBUST ENDURING COMMUNITY CULTURE FOCUS 070504
  %DOMINEERING PEOPLE TRUE LOVERS SUCCESSFUL BOTTOM 070504
%LINE CONCENTRATIONS WEALTH POWERS COALITION POLITY 070504
%POLITICS MARGINAL GAIN PREVAIL CULTURAL REVOLUTION 070504
 %AUTHENTIC TRUE LOVERS PEACEMAKERS MYTHIC VIOLENCE 070504

    On what grounds can either Domineering-People or True-
Lovers  make the case that their Focal-Concerns are in the
Long-Term ---  More-Robust-and-Enduring  than the other's?

    Domineering-People  are likely to claim that they  can
be  more  successful than True-Lovers in  determining  the
outcome  of  individual contests;  day-by-day,   month-by-
month, and year-by-year.  Domineering-People often believe
that the Long-Term-Outcome is determined by the Sum-Total-
of-Individual-Contests.

    Domineering-People usually do not  spend much of their
time studying the histories of Empires-which-Rise-through-
Domination;  but in-the-long-term fail when Domination-is-
Not-Enough.

    True-Lovers  have  a Less-Provincial and  Longer-Term-
View of what it takes  to  be Long-Term Highly-Robust-and-
Enduring.     The following are among What-It-Takes for  a
COMMUNITY-as-a-WHOLE  to be  Long-Term  Highly-Robust-and-
Enduring:

 1.  Working to Avoid Alienations-and-Estrangements WHICH:
        a.  Engender Simplistic-Idealism's Tragedies.
        b.  Undermine Learning-from-mistakes-made.
        c.  Promote debilitating prejudices/biases.
        d.  Undermine Distributive-Justice & Cooperation.
        e.  Lead to ignorance about others' perspectives.
        f.  Engender Animosity, Polarizations and Enmity.
        g.  Lead to Dichotomies --- Killing-Cooperation.
        h.  Undermine Imagination-and-Creativity.

 2.  Building-&-Maintaining  --- Sanctuaries-for-All ---
     In-Which-To:
        a.  Be in Dialogue about Avoiding-Tragedies.
        b.  Be in Dialogue about Learning-from-mistakes.
        c.  Mitigate debilitating prejudices/biases.
        d.  Support Distributive-Justice & Cooperation.
        e.  Dialogue about others' perspectives/beliefs.
        f.  Mitigate Animosity, Polarizations and Enmity.
        g.  Mitigate Dichotomies and Trusting-Violence.
        h.  Facilitate/Support Imagination-and-Creativity.

     Each of  the  above contributes to a  Community-as-a-
Whole   being   Robust-and-Enduring.    The  survival   of
Domineering-Individuals-As-Such  is  not  essential  to  a
Community-as-a-Whole being  Robust-and-Enduring.     There
are  very few well documented  occasions  of  Domineering-
Individuals-As-Such  playing  any  essential  role in  any
Community-as-a-Whole being Robust-and-Enduring.   Thus  it
is  absurd  to  claim that the  survival  of  Domineering-
Individuals-As-Such is essential to a Community-as-a-Whole
being Robust-and-Enduring.   Honesty about the basic facts
of  life is  essential  to  a  Community-as-a-Whole  being
Robust-and-Enduring.

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

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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