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                         %REVOLUTIONARY SUB-CULTURE 760525

     Many foolish acts are the result of pressure to prove
oneself.  Young men,  absent  a  real need for bravery  on
their part,   will play  "chicken"   in racing  their cars
directly  at  each  other on the highway.    Young  women,
absent  a social need for their physical affection,   will
seduce  a  man they don't  really  love.  Society  creates
expectations and defines what it means to be  significant,
acceptable,  "cool",   "in",   "proper". Individuals  then
experience  the  pressure to conform  to  expectations  of
whichever  culture or sub-culture means the most to  them.
The  structure  of the need to prove oneself  is  commonly
created  by  the  dominant culture.    Sub-cultures  often
accept the structural need to prove oneself, and make only
a minor modification to it;  redefining the acts which are
expected,   and  which,  when performed,  admit  one  into
acceptability.   Thus most  sub-cultures affirm the value-
structure  of  their dominant culture---while  disagreeing
upon   specific  values.    (Value-structures  create  the
context in which value---judgements are  given existential
significance.)  Thus,  dominant cultures and their typical
rebellious sub-culture---are  usually alike  in  requiring
their   members   to   prove  themselves   by   fulfilling
expectations  characteristic  of the  culture/sub-culture.
The  truly revolutionary sub-cultures are the  ones  which
lift demands  that  members  prove  themselves  worthy  of
acceptance, and so are open  to  all persons regardless of
their qualifications.

     Dominant  cultures and their rebellious  sub-cultures
are likely to reject any such a revolutionary sub-culture-
--because it  eliminates the basis for  the  definition of
their memberships. Without such a basis---the culture/sub-
culture can now  know what it stands for,  cannot know its
identity. Thus, such a revolutionary sub-culture threatens
the identity  of dominant cultures and of their rebellious
sub-cultures. The natural consequence is a combined effort
to render impotent any truly revolutionary  sub-culture---
through oppression, heresy,   institutionalization, and/or
indifference
                                                                                                                               
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