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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9001271.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.} ========================================================== %CHOOSE IDEALS VALUES COMPETITION COOPERATION TECH 900127 Some of our most basic decisions have to do with choosing: to engage in competition or cooperation, conflict winning or resolution, solving or transcending problems, preoccupation with techniques or dialogue with people; focusing upon poles of dichotomies or upon personal and communal integration. If we choose to engage in competition rather than cooperation, we seek to create competitive situations rather than cooperative situations; and neglect challenging dilemmas in preference to focusing upon superficial competitions. If we choose to try to win in conflicts rather than to resolve conflicts, we become imprisoned in the conflicts which might be resolved; and in those prisons we are trapped with our enemies who are doing the same thing we are doing. If we choose to try to solve everything which seems to be a problem to us, rather than to seek to transcend the dilemmas which are not technical problems; then we turn dilemmas into tragic efforts to control what cannot be controlled, and become imprisoned in addictive and codependent relationships. If we choose to be preoccupied with techniques rather than to be involved in open and honest dialogue with intimate friends, we become technocrats who seek to find ways to use their favorite techniques, even when such uses leads to personal and communal disintegration. If we choose to focus our lives on either pole of any of the multitude of available dichotomies, we lead disintegrative lives characterized by the split between the poles of the dichotomy whose pole we fixate upon: objectivity vs reflexivity, community vs individuality, acceptance vs rejection, science vs religion, spirit vs body, etc. In a technocratic society there is little time spent on learning how to choose ideals, values, and goals wisely; and much time is spent on attempting to technically achieve what is implied in ideals, values and goals which have been internalized thoughtlessly and without wisdom. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================