"'Psychology', by making the foundational assumption of the mutual 
exclusivity of the dynamics of inhabitant and habitat, identifies the 
social problem as residing within our internal mental processes. 
This, in turn, would have us seek to re-program the defective 
internal mental programs and ignore the conjugate role of the 
environment. This belief in the non-participation of the environment, 
which leads in turn to the investing of all our social transformation 
efforts into deliberate, constructivist shaping of 'how individuals 
behave' and 'how they interact' (rather than cultivating and 
sustaining nurturance in our 'common living space' [environment]), 
renders the environment for us, cold, empty and non-nurturing as a 
kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. This 'manufacturing' 
(Creationist-Parenting) approach to bringing about the 'healthy 
social dynamic' we all desire, then makes us precariously dependent 
on 'who we know or relate best to' and 'who we want to cooperate 
with', setting up an interpersonal cronyism network whose functioning 
is based on common belief in a particular (linear-causal) theory and 
an associated deliberate, constructivist 'we can make it happen' 
implementation. "

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(I found this article long and dense, and the argument interesting.  Sylvia)



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