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This-essay is a8412143.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 ========================================================== %NEEDS VS DESIRES 841214 We are often taught what we need. Businessmen teach us to need their products. Service providers teach us to need their services. Religious leaders teach us to need their powerful connections with God. Mobsters teach us to need their protection. Politicians teach us to need their leadership. Entertainers teach us to need their diversions. Pleasure peddlers teach us to need their services. How are we to know what-we-desire-because-we- have-been-taught-to-desire-it; and what-is-essential-to-us as-unique-creatures-to-be-with-integrity? To what extent do our desires get created to fulfill other people's desires which they also have been taught to have? What genuine needs are neglected in the process of creating and fulfilling artificial desires? What difference does it make? A community disintegrates when essential needs are not met because its members are too busy creating and fulling desires. People are too distracted to prudently take time and resources to the meeting of genuine human needs for: food, clothing, shelter, affection, dialogue, health and integrity maintenance, etc. Desires which generate disintegration are not genuine needs, no matter how strongly felt and agreed upon. It is not easy, however, to sort out which desires generate disintegration. Some people desire that others conform to proper behavior. Others desire to be creative. Conflict between the two desires often leads to disintegration. Whose desires are disintegrative? It is not clear to the participants, especially if they do not have integrative values and ideals. The fault lies in not having integrative values and ideals, rather than in affirming the other less essential values and ideals. The fanatic affirmation of ideals to the extent of alienation---is not an integrative affirmation and so leads to disintegration. Disintegrative desires lack the integrative power of a profound dedication to seeking ways to facilitate open and honest dialogue which builds communities by unification through mutual awareness. Without unification a community lacks unity and is not with-unity, not a community. When people are not open and honest with each other they are not a true community. A fearful collection of people is not a community. Desires which generate fear---disintegrate communities. The desire of some people to control the behavior and desires of other people---generates fear on the part of those who fear they will become the victims of such manipulative and coercive controls. (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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