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This-essay is a8412091.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 ========================================================== %NUCLEAR WAR DISINTEGRATION 841209 Total nuclear war is the naturally logical conclusion of a paradigm which seeks to achieve total control of events by increasingly extreme affirmations of the ideals of: objectification, quantification, analytic understanding, prediction, and control. To achieve these ultimate goals the paradigm leads its believers to call into question the reality and value of the unity and integrity---of communities and individuals created by open and honest dialogue which is free of fear in spite of great vulnerability. Such communities are secure through intimacy and vulnerability which are free from the need for fear. The manipulative paradigm seeks to achieve security through defensive maneuvers which are what generate alienation and so generate contexts which are genuinely fear-full. Within the manipulative paradigm it is impossible to believe that true security is a gift to people who seek intimacy which involves safe vulnerability. When we are free of the blinders of the paradigm we can perceive that we are most secure when we are free to be vulnerable without the need to be fearful. The extreme affirmation of the ideals of objectification, quantification, analytic understanding, prediction and control---lead away from security to alienation, fear, frustration and violence; and ultimately to total violence. No technological fulfillment of such ideals will achieve security, because security is not a goal which can be achieved; it is a gift to be offered and accepted. The purpose of security arrangements is to generate fear. Fear can not eliminate the need to be fearful. Security arrangements can not eliminate the need to be fearful. Security arrangements can not generate security. Within the manipulative paradigm it is impossible to make sense of these insights, for they appear to be nonsense. Threats of total nuclear war are logically consistent with the ideals of the manipulative paradigm. Such threats are perceived to be means to serve humane purposes. They are the best that can be offered by those who have faith in the paradigm, and so fear those alternatives which transcend the paradigm; for it would crack their world-view to take such an alternative to be a serious possibility for a new way of being---which would shake the foundations of their fears---with the courage to be secure through vulnerability in intimate, meaningful, personal relationships. (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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