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The Essential-Patterns-of-Cooperation in Responding-Graciously to the above comments will be associated with the ability to recognize the following signs of the presence of ALIENATION; e.g.: 1. The absence of Open-and-Honest-Dialogue, 2. The presence of violent-anger and interactions, 3. The absence of efforts at facilitating gracious reconciliations, 4. The presence of fears of strangers, 5. The absence of empathy, sympathy, sensitivity and thoughtfulness, 6. The presence of increasing economic disparities between the wealthy/the-poor, 7. The absence of Systemic-Distributive-Justice, 8. The presence of Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers, 9. The absence of efforts to Mitigate-Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts and Destruction, 10. The presence of Domineering-Bullies and Mobbing-Mobsters in Leaderships-Positions, 11. The absence of Due-Process Judicial-Procedures, 12. The presence of segregations and exclusive-practices within our communities, 13. The absence of Systemic-Restorative-Justice-Procedures, 14. The presence of pervasive thoughtless traditions of alienative reverence, 15. The absence of balance, mutuality, and/or cooperation, 16. The presence of standing-armies during peace-time, 17. The absence of respected Peace-Institutes, 18. The presence of religious exclusivity and alienative-conflicts, 19. The absence of Universal-HealthCare-for-All-People within the local community, 20. The presence of Dominant Powerful-and-Wealthy-Corporations with personal rights, 21. The absence of Healthy-Sexual-Intimate-Relationships, 22. The presence of violent sexual abuses and slavery, 23. The absence of Reconciling-Judgements and Restorative-Justice, 24. The presence of Alienative-Judgements and Excommunications. The differences between the last two have to do with how much freedom and power people who are involved in them - - have to Mitigate their Own-Alienative-Conflicts. Is the Alienation imposed by Wealthy-and-Powerful people-and-Corporations - - - upon the Poor-and-Weak? Do the Wealthy-and-Powerful choose to be Alienated-From the Poor-and-the-Weak? Why? Powerful-People's: Goals, Strategies, Tactics, Ideals, Values, Principles, Virtues, Victories Winnings and Loses - - - when focused upon in any Egocentric-Framework - - - leads US tragically into the unsustainable-Styles of Domineering-Bullies. We are led by each Egocentric-Framework to focus upon Thoughtless-and-Uninformed: GREED Envy Arrogance Pretentions Fears Anxieties Defenses and attempts to be invulnerable in Alienative-Conflicts with Strangers-whom-we-Fear. Our most basic beginning: assumptions, attitudes, preoccupations, fears and anxieties point us towards the destinations which we will reach; if we do not think - - - and so travel as a thrown rock that falls to the ground - - - if it does not hit something else first. Because of the above - - - - what happens to us before birth and soon after birth is influential to degrees that many people are totally unaware of! The only way there can be hope - - - is of we choose frameworks other than egocentric frameworks - - - as the contexts wherein we live our lives of: 1. True-Lovers, 2. Communal-Sanctuary-Builders and Care-Takers of Communal-Sanctuaries, 3. Mitigators of Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts, 4. Reconcilers with Our-Own-Strangers, 5. Reconcilers with Our-Own-Enemies, 6. Reconcilers with People whom we know are "different", 7. Diplomats and Integrators in all of our Reflexive-Inter-Personal-Relationships;RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS Course Keys **** No family, tribe, neighborhood, community, church, synagogue, mosque; or large religious-institution or political-party can long be: Well, Healthy, Whole, United, or Well-Integrated; so long as it LACKS Overt-Public-Efforts to: Acknowledge, Describe, Graciously-Mitigate and Transcend: