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     Violence  is  commonly  thought of only  in  physical
terms because of  the dominant focus which our society has
on things physical.   Via collusions it is  possible to be
inattentive to the other ways in which selves violate each
other   without  inflicting  physical  damage   upon   the
valuation   of  physical  bodies.    this   is   virtually
inevitable   in  a  society  which  is  founded  upon  the
valuation   of   mutual  economic  violation,   with   the
individual encouraged  to acquire things by whatever means
others will  tolerate.  Thus economic violence is far more
common than  physical violence,   and prepares the fertile
ground  in  which  the  roots of  physical  violence  gain
nourishment.   The economic technocrats  manipulate others
for their own selfish gain, and so they and their  society
have little survival value.   They are their kind cease to
live.

     Some  presume to have the knowledge of good and  evil
and  so  know  how  to judge  other's  conformity  to  the
maintained  standards  of  human  judgment.   Often   such
knowledge is injected into children and fragments them  so
that  they know not self and  others.    Through  judgment
comes division,  estrange-ment,  alienation,  and failure.
This too is violence which collusions cover over and  call
education, although it is rape.

     Some  presume  to have certainty through  objectivity
and complexity  of analysis.   Success in the manipulation
of the world of 'It'  is taken to indicate the power to be
successful  in manipulation hope and meaning in the  world
of 'Thou'.  Often such unexamined assumptions are injected
into  students  and fragments them so that they  know  not
self  and others in authentic meeting,  they cease to live
in  the  world of 'I-Thou'.   Through objectification  and
analysis  comes division,  estrangement,  alienation,  and
failure.  This too is violence which collusions cover over
and call scientific.

     Some  seek  to  explain  the  human  condition   with
intellectual  models of original  conditions,   processes,
principles,      principalities,powers,       rationality,
categories, etc.  Too often these become divorced from the
existential experience and fail to point to the  realities
of  the lives of real persons.   Then the theory  violates
real persons who, in taking the theory seriously, cease to
live.    This too is violence which collusions cover  over
and call religious.
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