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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8809032.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SIGNS OF INTEGRITY INTEGRATION DISINTEGRATION 880903 To avoid disintegration the members of a community need to be familiar with the signs of personal and communal integrity, integration and disintegration. In the absence of such familiarity, natural tendencies towards disintegration are often ignored, and investments in integrity are not made. Integration and disintegration are processes. Integrity is not a static reality or condition. Integrity grows or decays. Integrity grows when communities recognize and respect integrity. Disintegration progresses when communities fail to recognize and respect integrity. Open and honest dialogue are essential and central to personal and communal integrity and integration. Authentic intimacy is a sign of integrity. People of integrity are authentically responsive and responsible. Through open and honest dialogue the parts of a diverse whole are integrated into a coherent organism of cooperating parts. In the absence of open and honest dialogue, the parts fall apart and disintegrate. Personal integrity is a sign of communal integrity. Communal integrity is a sign of personal integrity. Each kind of integrity depends critically upon the other kind of integrity. Individuals cannot be fully persons of integrity in a community which lacks integrity. A community can not have genuine communal integrity if a significant minority of its members lack personal integrity. Genuine integrity entails both personal and communal integrity. Genuine integrity involves transcendence of dichotomies and paradoxes. People and communities of integrity are not preoccupied with any pole of any dichotomy or paradox. Compulsive and/or exclusive preoccupation with any pole of any dichotomy or paradox is a sign of some form of disintegration. Balanced attention to the poles of dichotomies and paradoxes is a sign of integrity. Personal and communal security are signs of integrity. Personal and communal insecurity and defensiveness are signs of disintegration. Integrity and security are not achieved through defensiveness, but through prudent risks taken in open and honest dialogue. Security is the freedom to be vulnerable. Vulnerable people who are secure are signs of personal and communal integrity. Invulnerable people who are insecure and defensive are signs of disintegration. Secure people of integrity are not fanatical. Fanatics are insecure people who are not free to be vulnerable. Intolerance, fanaticism, compulsive convictions and the like lead to rejections, exclusivity, excommunications, alienation, ignorance and confusion; all of which have to do with the break-down of coherence, communication, cooperation, dialogue, and so with disintegration. Such characteristics are thus signs of disintegration and should be considered with tender loving care in open and honest dialogue. Technical specialists and experts who are compulsively narrow in their focus are signs of disintegration. Such people are not secure enough to deal with the challenges of being aware of the full range of experiences and realities. They seek a false security in ignorance of the full range of human experiences and realities. They should be considered with tender loving care in open and honest dialogue. Technologies have to do with achieving pre-conceived results, not with challenging preconceptions regarding what ideals and values should guide human attention and efforts. Technocrats are compulsively concerned with technologies, to the exclusion of giving attention to coherent responses of love to the disintegrations which are occasioned by insensitive uses of technologies. Thus technocrats are signs of disintegration, and should be considered with tender loving care in open and honest dialogue. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================