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%TRAGICALLY MISLEADING PATTERNS SUCCESSFUL OVERCOME 080420
%LIMIT LIMITATION PERCEIVE INADEQUACIES VIA GETTING 080420
%MORE THAN ENOUGH GREED LUXURIES FEARED DEPRIVATION 080420
  %ECONOMIC EXPONENTIAL GROWTH EXPANSION OVERCOMING 080420
%CONSTRAINING NEEDS DESIRES HOPES EXPECTATIONS SEEN 080420
 %HUMILIATIONS FAILURES GETTING WANTS FULFILLED NOW 080420

Each community which has fallen into a pattern of honoring
leaders who  do outstanding jobs of Overcoming-Limits-and-
Limitations  is  likely to then fall into tragic  traps of
Simplistic-Idealism  about   Overcoming-Future-Limits-and-
Limitations related to Perceived-Inadequacies in:

 1.  Shelters-and-Clothing,
 2.  Food-Supplies,
 3.  Roads and Vehicles,
 4.  Shopping-Centers,
 5.  Growth-Opportunities,
 6.  Corporate-Profits,
 7.  Investment-Opportunities,
 8.  Investment-Returns,
 9.  Investment-Stability,
10.  Oil-Supplies,
11.  Natural-Gas-Supplies,
12.  Coal-Supplies,
13.  Water-Supplies,
14.  Vacation-Opportunities,
15.  Entertainment-Opportunities,
16.  Conformity/Reliability,
17.  Cooperation-and-Loyalty,
18.  Unity-and-Team-Work,
19.  Loyalty-and-Patriotism,
20.  Loyalty-to-Traditions.

When    such   Perceived-Inadequacies   are   driven    by
characteristics   of   Domineering-Bullies  ---   such   a
community  will  not  likely to be  able  to recognize the
LIMITATIONS imposed upon them because of their traditional
ways of conceiving of success in terms of:

 1.  Overcoming limits and limitations,
 2.  Pushing-things-out-of-the-way,
 3.  Endless Exponential Growth,
 4.  Increasing levels of Consumption,
 5.  Increasing levels of Generating-Garbage,
 6.  Increasing levels of Domination-and-Violence,
 7.  Winning Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.

Another way of looking at our situations noted above is to
note that there are risks generated by Domineering-Bullies
being  Respected/Honored/Admired ---   because  they   are
SUCCESSFUL-in-OVERCOMING   Limits-and/or-Limitations   ---
while showing little-or-no-respect for any ULTIMATE-LIMITS
or LIMITATIONS; nor for Reliable and  Gracious VIRTUES of:

Modesty, Humility,  Cooperation, Collaboration, Mutuality,
Patience,   Deference,   Reverence,    Awe, Conservation,
Sustainability and Self-Restraint.

When such SUCCESSES are Respected/Honored/Admired ---  the
SUCCESSES undermine their own foundations;  by destroying
and/or corrupting the INTEGRITIES upon  which they depend:

Environmental, Personal, Communal, Ideological, Spiritual,
Political,    Economic,   Corporate,    Interdependencies,
Intellectual,   Scholarly,    Institutional,    Religious,
Infrastructural   and  Concentrations   of   Energy/Fuels,
Elements and Pure-Compounds.

To  show Respect-Honor-and-Admiration for the  INTEGRITIES
upon which True-Humane-Fulfillment-Depends   ---  we  must
Respect-Honor-Admire LIMITS-IMPOSED-UPON-US by VIRTUES of:

Modesty, Humility,  Cooperation, Collaboration, Mutuality,
Patience,   Deference,   Reverence,   Awe,  Conservation,
Sustainability and Self-Restraint.

We  are  very  unlikely to   Respect-Honor-and-Admire  the
LIMITS-IMPOSED-UPON-US   by  the  VIRTUES  of:    Modesty,
Humility, Cooperation, Collaboration, Mutuality, Patience,
Deference,  Reverence,  Awe, Conservation, Sustainability
and Self-Restraint ---  In-the-Shadows-Cast by  traditions
of   Respecting-Honoring-and-Admiring   people  who   have
specialized   in   SUCCESSFULLY-OVERCOMING  Limits-and/or-
Limitations --- while showing little-or-no-respect for any
ULTIMATE-LIMITS or LIMITATIONS;   nor  for the VIRTUES of:

Modesty, Humility, Cooperation,  Collaboration, Mutuality,
Patience,   Deference,   Reverence,   Awe,   Conservation,
Sustainability and Self-Restraint.

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

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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