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This-essay is a7905111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %MODELS AS VALUE PATTERNS LANGUAGE INTELLECT+790511 %PERSON CULTURE AFFECT COMPARE TRUTH LEAD 790511 Our values are embodied in the patterns which lead to our behavior. Included in our value patterns are the models which we take seriously. Most obvious are the personal role models whom we copy consciously or subconsciously---the people whom we admire and after whom we pattern ourselves. Less obvious are the people toward whom we react negatively, yet to whom we are bonded in some way that leads us to model them in our selves. Perhaps even less obvious are the languages and intellectual models which dominate our daily lives. They may constituent the most pervasive value patterns, and lead us to behave in ways that we are not aware of. We often ask only if our intellectual models are "true" or "false". Rarely do we ask if they are "loving" or "alienative"; "helpful", or "misleading". We tend to think of people as being "gentle" or "violent"; but rarely ask if our intellectual models are "gentle" or "violent". Because many of our intellectual models are usually impersonal---they tend to be "alienative" and "violent"; rather than "loving" and "gentle". This is especially true of analytic, quantitative, and systematic models which are developed with little respect for intimate personal realities. The languages which dominate our lives do so by patterning our thought processes. By patterning our though processes our languages serve as values which lead us to behave one way, rather than another way. This is true of spoken and written verbal languages. It is also true of non-verbal languages such as body language, gestures, facial expressions, stylized behavior, etiquette, art, music, mathematics, drawings, computer programing languages, flow charts, etc. Each way we have of making comparisons can serve to pattern our behavior and so serve as a value. We often tend to think of values as those important things which we will speak of as important, which we will publicly say are important to us; our declared priorities. Yet our behavior rarely conforms to our verbal patterns which lead to our behavior. It is usually difficult to become aware of the patterns which lead to our behavior, and so difficult to become aware of the values which occasion conflict, tension, misunderstanding, and violence between people who have incongruous values. Conflict resolution often depends upon becoming mutually aware of and mutually understanding our tacit value patterns. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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