Unteachability: Unintegrity Pandemic Variety #3
Unteachability means refusing to recognize the consequences of our actions or inactions. Refusing to recognize the impact of the consequences of our actions on others compounds our Unintegrity and makes it very difficult for others to hold us accountable for being unreliable.
Example of Unintegrity Through Unteachability: Global Warming
Global Warming is a phenomenon that took a long time for enough decision-makers (ad the general public) to understand well enough to pressure world leaders to accept and do something to reduce. Profoundly compelling data confirming the dangers of global warming and the man-made sources contributing to it have been known about for years by both scientists and those in power. But, yielding to the greed of mass consumption without regard to it interfering with serving highest good, resulted in leaders refusing to be teachable. As a result, they have not taken action in a timely manner to reverse the human contributions to global warming.
The release of the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in the summer of 2005, helped begin to change this. This movie helped people become more teachable. As a result of seeing this movie, more citizens, business leaders, social advocates and political leaders then ever recognize not only that global warming can have potentially devastating worldwide consequences during the 21st century and beyond, but that there are realistic things we can do to prevent this from occurring.
Another Example of Unintegrity Through Unteachability: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
People who are attached to their preconceptions are not only not teachable, but they will lie in order to justify sticking to their preconceptions despite evidence to the contrary.
The primary reason used to persuade governmental officials to support the invasion of Iraq that put an end to Saddam Hussein’s rule was that Hussein had developed and stockpiled weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In the years following the invasion, what came out was that some who advocated it were so intent upon it occurring that they actively suppressed intelligence information reporting that Hussein did not have a WMD arsenal.
