To believe in public integrity or to be whole again?



A belief that integrity is the compatibility between the public act and the private thought is a misunderstanding that thoughts engaged with the public and thoughts disengaging from such can dwell in the same cognitive chamber and thus work with the same values.  Each in its own room believes in this integrity, even after having contradicted itself while moving from one room to the other.  Those who have the greatest public integrity are either those most capable of denial or incapable of introspection. To be a sea lion undersea and a sea lion on the shore has the integrity of accepting the different powers and limits … each value in its own element.  Half and Half can make one, but one is not the result of half minus half.

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