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     Upon looking north, up a fertile valley, we see steep
overhanging cliffs on the right and left.  The few natives
would  unconditionally  welcome those who live on the  dry
plateaus above the right  cliff-of-objectivity,  and above
the left cliff-of-subjectivity.    The  technocrats on the
objective  plateau   disdain  the  valley-people  and  the
humanists  for  the importance  they  place  upon holistic
subjectivity.   The  humanists  on  the subjective-plateau
disdain  the  valley-people  and the  technocrats  for the
importance  they  place upon analytic  objectivity.   They
remain  alienated from each other because of the exclusive
importance they place upon complementary values.

     The  plateau-people  assign exclusive value to  their
respective excellence, and  excommunicate those who do not
compulsively value the excellence of their home collusion.
The  excommunicants  fear descent into the valley  of  the
shadow of death,  because their culture has not by example
shown how to  take such risks.   Thus, excommunicants look
across  the  unknown  valley  and try to  copy  the  overt
behavior of those they see,  without intimately sharing in
their  life.   The valley,  which is the  natural  meeting
place,    continues   to   separate   them---because    of
intellectual/emotional  fear of  the  unknown  catastrophe
which  might  be encountered in going there.   The  valley
remains sparsely populated by a joyful fifth-culture which
is  always ready to help unite the two cultures of each of
the two plateaus.   Each of the four plateau-cultures sees
two cultures,  because the valley-culture and the dominant
culture   on   the  opposite  plateau  appear   like   the
excommunicants within their own culture.

     The valley-people know the five cultures.  They value
subjectivity  and  objectivity  situationally,    granting
neither a dominant and/or exclusive role.  They most value
their dedication-to-openness with the  resultant free-flow
of objective/subjective perceptions.   Valley-people visit
the plateaus as suffering  servants,   and appear there as
excommunicants. They travel the gentle slopes of ambiguity
and vulnerability which are  taboo to the  plateau- people
who  cultivate  their trees of the knowledge of  good  and
evil.    The   valley-people  eagerly  share   all   their
perceptions to deepen their  mutual  understanding  and to
strengthen their culture.  Their love abounds.

     Plateau-people  are  relatively  unaware  of   and/or
indifferent  to  the valley-people,   whom they regard  as
unsophisticated.  It would be risky treason to descend the
cliff to visit then.   Thus,  alienation and violence feed
each other,  and sin abounds. Systematic efforts to reduce
sin naturally  prove tragically  counter-productive.   The
valley-people   are  always  present  as   excommunicants,
willing and able to help.

     The  situation  will  not  change until the  plateau-
people recognize  the tragic  futility  of  their ultimate
concern with only objectivity or only subjectivity.  Their
definitions  of good and evil create the symbiosis between
alienation and violence. Until they feel secure in letting
go  of  those  definitions,  they cannot descend into  the
valley of the shadow of death where love abounds.   On the
plateaus  they  are not  free  to  communicate  all  their
perceptions, and so cannot cope effectively.  The plateau-
people are trapped in a can't-win situation.   They cannot
know  the nature of  their  situation  because  it  blocks
communication regarding its nature.   Only as they come to
intimately  know members of the valley-culture  will  they
become free.
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