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This-essay is a8603041.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 ========================================================== %AFFECTIVE EMOTIONAL DENIAL 860304 It is possible to engage in affective and emotional denials of cognitive knowledge while intellectually affirming the cognitive knowledge. Logical and rational articulations of objective knowledge are not reliable indications that the articulators' behaviors will be consistent with those articulations, no matter how intelligent, informed and respected the articulators may be. It is possible for barriers to exist between logical and rational articulations and the affective and emotional lives of the articulators. The articulators may be incapable of connecting their articulations to make them relevant to choosing values, ideals, priorities, and goals in their daily lives. Highly intelligent and well educated people engage in sophisticated forms of reality denial to prevent their unstable artificial perceptions of reality from crumbling. Such people and their loved ones cooperate in such ventures in enabling alcoholism, drug abuse, resource abuse, technology abuse, religions extremism, arms races and strategic defense initiatives. Intelligence, logic, objective information, wealth, respectability, power and their like are not reliable indications of the absence of reality denial. People who associate exclusively with their own kind thereby signal their involvement in reality denial. Exclusivity is an attempt to deny reality and to live in a world of pretense. This is true even if the basis of exclusivity is intelligence, logic, objectivity, extensive information, wealth, respectability and/or power. Exclusivity is disintegrative and not an effective foundation for survival. Exclusivity ignores real threats to survival. People who exclude consideration of emotional and affective realities ignore the reality that decisions and actions are more motivated by emotional and affective considerations; than by intellectual, logical, objective and rational considerations. The failure to integrate all kinds of considerations into a coherent whole which makes both intellectual and emotional sense---is part of an immature effort to pretend that human relationships can be understood, predicted and controlled in terms of exclusively intellectual, logical, informational, rational, etc. kinds of knowledge. The failure is a manifestation of addiction just as alcoholism and drug abuse are. (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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