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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Moreno, in </FONT><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Essential Moreno</SPAN>/Fox: "It is
almost a miracle that an individual can achieve any degree of balance, and man
has continually been in search of devices which will enable him to attain or
increase his equilibrium."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Now I like the 2nd
part of the sentence, but the first part stimulates the following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> People develop a rich
capacity to numb out cognitive dissonance, to create loose and flexible belief
systems that can be a general assortment of five to twenty platitudes---vaguely
associated. Yet this matrix can serve as a sufficient narrative flying carpet to
support all manner of ideologies and self-system creations, neurotic, psychotic,
fanatic, submissive, oppressed, oppressor, and so forth. People don't closely
reason their belief systems. They select items from the teachings of sermons,
parts of books, radio or TV broadcasts, they read supportive magazines and news
articles, they sustain their beliefs. You can gather enough "evidence" to
maintain a prejudice, support a political position, and so forth. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2> This belief system
then works as a buffer. Without it people would be very precarious, especially
as they notice the profound vulnerability of their own limited and
neurosis-laced consciousness. </FONT></DIV>
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What do you think of this? Warmly, Adam</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Adam Blatner, M.D.<BR> website: <A
href="http://www.blatner.com/adam/">www.blatner.com/adam/</A>
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