RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS Some People who seek to Mitigate-Their-Own-Alienative-conflicts will find it helpful to have available an overview of what tends to Augment-or-to-Mitigate-Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts. It is helpful to recognize the different kinds of realities that play major roles in Creating-Augmenting- and-Sustaining Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts:
1. Players a. Ideals 2. Instigators b. Values 3. Actors c. Principles 4. Influences d. Virtues 5. Complicaters e. Hopes 6. Complicities f. Aspirations 7. Dominators g. Visions 8. Controllers h. Dreams A. Blockages 1. Inhibitions B. Opponents 2. Catastrophes C. Spoilers 3. Accidents D. Negations 4. Injuries E. Polarizations 5. Diseases F. Dichotomies 6. Limitations G. Distractions 7. Ignorance H. Confusers 8. Inaccuracies I. Preventers 9. Misunderstandings J. Distracters 10. Ignorance K. Collusive Games of MS Deception 11. Addictions L. Concentrated-Wealth/Powers 12. Corruption M. Advertisements 13. Luxuries N. Entertainments 14. Competitive-Games O. Admired-Exponential-Growth 15. Ignored-Resource-Limits P. Admired-Domineering-Bullies 16. Ignored-Alienative-Conflicts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no one-most-helpful way-to-classify the different kinds-of-realities that play-major-roles in Creating-Augmenting-and-Sustaining Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts. Even so, it may be helpful to recognize-the-variety of similar-kinds-of-realities that play-major-roles. It is important to recognize, acknowledge, describe and clarify - - - HOW all of the different realities interact-with-each-other - - - to augment-or-mitigate Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - and to focus upon what we ourselves can do to - - - Mitigate-the-Realities-and-Interactions which - - - Augment Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts; and to recognize what we can do to AUGMENT - - - the-realities-and-interactions which MITIGATE - - - Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts. Our OWN-EFFORTS are ineffective to the extent that they augment, generate or elicit: A. Alienation rather than Reconciliation B. Suspicion rather than Trust and Cooperation C. Distrust rather than Respect and Admiration D. Violence rather than Kindness and Generosity E. Attempts to be in Control rather than Acts of Liberation F. Resentment rather than Profound-Appreciation G. Secrecy rather than Open-and-Honest-Dialogues H. Withdrawal rather than Movement toward Authentic-Intimacies I. Detachment rather than Involvement-in-Cooperation/Collaborations J. Indifference rather than Integrative-patterns-of-Engagement K. Defensive-Responses rather than Helping people to Mitigate Their-Own Alienative-Conflicts L. Dishonesty rather than Being Authentic-Creative-Collaborators M. Pretentions rather than Honesty about Actual-Powers-and-Limitations as Mortals N. Greed and Hoarding rather than Generosity O. Attacks and Negations rather than Hospitality P. Polarizations and Dichotomizations rather than Integrations of Diverse-Mutually-Complementary-Essentials We need to Augment-Realities (1) On the Right above to Mitigate-Realities - - - (2) On the Left above to Mitigate Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts - - - (3) As Graciously and as Well as we can - - - (4) In-the-Absence of an: Informed, Thoughtful, and Gracious Overview - - - (5) Of how much the Many-Interacting-Realities - - - (6) Tend-to-Augment Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - (7) In Endless-Feed-Back-Loops - - - (8) Unless most of us are Thoughtful-and-Intentional in - - - (9) Working to Mitigate-Our-Own Alienative-Conflict in all of our daily activities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we are not engaged as above - - - We are not in a good position to do-together-in-cooperative-ways - - - All that we can do to Mitigate-Our-Own - - - Alienative-Conflicts and/or Our-Own-Alienations - - - That are the Bitter-Fruits of Many-Past-Alienative-Conflicts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is usually helpful within the context of Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - - To Contribute: Observations, thoughts and insights into how all of the above noted realities - - - Contribute to either the Augmentations-or-Mitigations of Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - So that we can all have Firm-Foundations on which to build Gracious-Efforts to Mitigate-Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts. It does no Long-Term-Sustainable-Good - - - To Blame-Shame-Guilt Our-Chosen-Enemies and our Unilaterally-Identified-Evil-People - - - For Their-Parts-Played in Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts in which we continue To-Be Enduringly-Complicit With-Them. We cannot enjoy either Personal-or-Communal Integrations-or-Integrities - - - So long as we continue to Play-To-WIN our Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception with our - - - Strangers, Enemies and Evil-People!