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                 %COMMUNITIES' INTEGRATIVE EMOTIONS 841218

     Each  community determines for itself which  emotions
are integrative within the community.   Whether or not  an
emotion  is integrative is not determined by the nature of
the  emotion;  rather,  it is determined by the pattern of
affective  and intellectual responses of the  community to
occasions  when members  give expression to  that emotion.
If  jealousy is rewarded  with  attention and respect---it
may be  the  basis for integrative  behavior of  a   sort,
even  though   in   the   long   run   such  efforts    at
community integration  are  certain to disintegrate.    If
expressions  of desires  for  loving intimacy are met with
embarrassment and moralizing---then sexual emotions may be
the  grounds  for  exclusion   of members of the community
from   integrative circles---even though in the  long  run
such  circles are clearly  dependent upon  sexual emotions
for true integrity.   In  the  short run   each  community
regards  some   emotions   as integrative,   and   some as
disintegrative  emotions. Such communal self-regard may be
unenlightened.   Emotions which  are  integrative  in  the
short  term,   may be disintegrative in the long term; and
vice versa.

     At  a  profound level the integrity  of  a  community
depends  upon  how  wisely it decides  which  emotions  to
regard    as   integrative  and  which   to    regard   as
disintegrative.      That  communal  decision   must    be
integrated with communal intellectual,  rational, logical,
and  political processes.   The integrity of  a  community
depends   upon integrating the many complementary ways  of
knowing  and being known.    The community that does   not
successfully integrate affective and intellectual ways  of
knowing will disintegrate.   In particular,  any community
which    rejects   any  important  way  of   knowing    as
essentially disintegrative,  will  itself disintegrate for
lack of  the knowledge   characteristic   of  that  way of
knowing. Rejection of knowledge is not an integrative act.
Wisdom   is   not   founded  upon  ignorance,    but  upon
integration  of contrasting ways of knowing.

     Objectivity  and  analysis are not the only  reliable
ways  to  the knowledge upon which wisdom can be  founded.
People who reject non-objective and non-analytic knowledge
contribute to the disintegration of their community.

                                                                                                                               
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