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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0112271.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.} ========================================================== %FORMAL TRAPS INFORMAL CONSENSUS SOLUTION DILEMMA+011227 %PATTERNS ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS BELIEFS CONVICTION+011227 %AUTHENTIC PEOPLE'S HEARTS MINDS SOULS DOMINATION+011227 %SYSTEM TECHNOCRAT CONTROL ADDICTS CODEPENDENT SIN+011227 %ROBERTS RULES ORDER EITHER DICHOTOMIES POSITIONS+011227 %STANDS CONFESSIONS DEMANDS COMMANDMENTS PRESCRIBE 011227 On the importance of an Informal Consensus We often fall into the trap of feeling and thinking that what really counts are formal votes and formal decisions ---regarding formal proposals placed before formal legislative assemblies and judicial bodies. I suggest that what really counts are the patterns of informal consensuses which are registered in authentic people's hearts, minds and souls; places where the efforts of domineering supporters of "The Domination System" cannot reach; places where domineering people cannot be in control. What really counts is NOT the count of how many people have taken public stands for or against particular formal proposals --- but how deeply many people of integrity understand the hidden issues, questions, and inter-relationships --- which are hidden by the superficial public stands that domineering people have taken about particular formal proposals. What really counts is NOT how many and powerful are the leaders of collusive games of mutual self deception ---but how clearly articulated are the penetrating questions and affirmations which expose the hidden rules of the collusive games of mutual self deception; e.g, (1) There are no such games. (2) Do not say what their rules are. (3) Do not describe the bitter fruits of the games. (4) Don't you dare drop out of our game! What really counts is how well authentic-people communicate with each other their own insights into how "The Domination System" works to undermine both personal and communal integrity ---thereby revealing its lack of integrity. Through such communications authentic-people can expose, clarify, subvert, and undermine the powers of domineering people. When authentic-people have fully exposed the lack of integrity in traditional domineering ways, the tide will turn in the counting of votes on formal proposals which are devised and proposed by domineering people. What really counts is how powerfully-gentle are the ways in which authentic-people expose the lack of integrity of domineering people who advance themselves by taking advantage of vulnerable people who are: thirsty, hungry, weak, sick, dis-eased, ill-at- ease, naked, homeless, confused, ignorant, hopeless, powerless, female, young, and/or traditionally oppressed. When there is a broad-based informal consensus that domineering leaders lack integrity; they lose their power and advantages. The first shall be last, and the last shall be first. Formal proposals (which take for granted the continued abuse of vulnerable people) collapse in the face of an informal consensus on the part of many authentic people who reveal the lack of integrity in the formal proposals. Many proposals lack integrity because they are grounded in one or more collusive games of mutual self deception. We are called to reveal the lack of integrity --- by how clearly we speak the truth about powerful collusive leaders --- exposing their lack of integrity for all to see. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================