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An "ECONOMY" can be robust, enduring and sustainable with integrity - - - only to the extent that it is FREE-OF:

 1. Playing Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception about what are truly essential humane services, goods and possessions
    in meeting the authentic basic true needs of all of the members of the crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-
    Earth which is Essentially-Isolated from Extra-Terrestrial Sources-of-Material-Resources that humans might go to bring
    back to Space-Ship-Earth.

 2. Systemic patterns of Distributive-Injustice due to Alienative-Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers.

 3. Enduring Alienative-Conflicts over what Isolated-Ideals-and-Values are most important In-Isolation.

 4. Ignorance and Confusion about what are the Essential-Foundations of Personal-and-Communal Integrities, Integration-
    Processes, Health, and Long-Term-Sustainability.

 5. Ignorance/Confusion about Authentic-Clusters of: ideals, values, virtues, principles, hopes, expectations, intentions, 
    assumptions, and approaches to all other members of the crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth  which is
    Essentially-Isolated from additional material-resources to sustain    Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth for Life.

 6. Pretentions about knowing: Who-is-Good, Who-is-Evil, Who-is-Superior, Who-is-Inferior, and what God's-Transcendent
    Will-IS for each mortal.

 7. Myths that affirm the Redemptive Powers of: Violence, Coercion, Domination, Bullying, Mobbing, Unilateral-Actions,
    Exponential-Growth-in-Consumption, Possessions, and Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers - - - without limits.

 8. Ignorance and Confusions/Conflicts over what is ultimately-impossible - - - and what is ultimately-possible.

 9. Confusions/Conflicts over the upper-limits in the amounts of pure-resources that are ultimately-available to mortals: 
    Pure-Air, Pure-Water, Pure-Soils, Fossil-Fuels, Pure-Minerals, etc. - - - and how to distribute rights to their uses.

10. Ignorance and Confusion/Conflicts about what kinds of humane-relationships are overall-sustainable in-the-long-term; 
    and honesty about such possible humane-relationships; and how to facilitate them.

11. Ignorance and Confusion/Conflicts about reliably-descriptive laws-and-theories of physics-and-chemistry; e.g., about 
    CONSERVATION of: energy, linear-momentum, angular-momentum, charge, isotopic-spin, baryon-number, lepton-number, etc. 

12. Ignorance and Confusion/Conflicts about what and who is in the long-term and in sustainable-ways: honorable, 
    admirable, helpful,  authentic and well-integrated.

13. Ignorance and Confusions/Conflicts over what certificates-of-authenticity of mortgaged-valuable-possessions - - - are 
    worthy of respect, honor, trust, etc.

14. Ignorance and Confusions/Conflicts over what Collections-Of: mortgages, deeds and manufactured goods - - - will have 
    enduring value.

15. Ignorance and Confusion/Conflicts over what our "economic-systems" are really serving:   the "common-good", personal-
    health,  communal-health, personal-and-communal integrities and integration-processes, etc. to facilitate The-
    Mitigation-of and/or the Learning-From:

    Alienative-Conflicts    Open-and-Honest-Dialogues     Mistakes   Blunders     Tragedies            Simplistic-Ideals

    Arrogance               Domination                    Redemptive-Violence     Redemptive-Controls  Failures

    Pretensions             Dishonesty                    Redemptive-Shunnings    Excommunication      Alienations

16. DISTRUST of those who have control of the greatest wealth and power; and distrust of "strangers" Whom-We-Do-Not-Know.