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                                %CLAIMING PRIVACY-I 761028

     Claiming privacy is often a public act.  Each society
defines  certain  personal acts and  relationships  to  be
private  in  nature.    This is due  to  the  apprehension
aroused   by   the  nature  of  these  acts,   and   their
relationships  relative  to the basic  collusions  of  the
society.    Private acts are often acts which  threaten  a
society's  collusions.    By declaring  certain  essential
personal acts to be essentially private, the threat to the
society's collusions is minimized.

     For   some  technocrats  declaring  the   threatening
essential  acts  to  be  permissible  in  private  is  not
adequate protection for their egos.  Such technocrats feel
threatened  by the thought that certain individuals may be
committing those acts in private.  Circumstantial evidence
which encourages such thoughts disturbs them greatly.  The
failure of suspects to prove the suspicions false---may be
regarded  as a criminal act.   Such technocrats  therefore
seek  to control the quality of privacy---so as to inhibit
as completely as  possible  the acts  which threaten their
cherished collusions.  Thus, claiming the right to privacy
may  be declared taboo---due to  technocrats  apprehension
that  taboos will be violated in private.    Claiming  the
right to privacy is  interpreted as evidence that what  is
taking  place  in private---is immoral,  illegal,   wrong,
and/or evil. Thus  all  privacy  is ultimately eliminated.
This  is consistent with technocrats'  compulsive need  to
strive for complete knowledge, understanding and control.

     The elimination of all privacy ultimately  undermines
the  rights  to  assemble  and  petition  for  redress  of
grievance.   In the absence of privacy individuals may not
with security seek out others of a like mind,  which is in
opposition to  the world view---of the dominant world view
about  them.   Thus dissent is squelched before it reaches
the  bud  stage.    By  eliminating  privacy  intimacy  is
eliminated---and  the  flowering  of   critical   insights
prevented.   In the absence of such flowering no  creative
seeds  develop.   In the absence of such  creative  seeds,
life is not renewed,  people cease to live.   They content
themselves  with  mere  existence  within  a  technocratic
society.  They adjust to the values of the technocrats and
deceive  themselves  into the irrational  conclusion  that
they  are  being  fulfilled by technology.    They  become
participants in the technological collusions---even though
they  do not have technical abilities and skills.    It is
essentially a question of values in the end.

     Thus,   claiming the right to privacy may be declared
taboo---due to apprehension that, in private,  taboos will
be violated.  Claiming the right to privacy is interpreted
as  evidence  that  what is taking  place  in  private  is
immoral, illegal, wrong, and/or evil.

                                                                                                                               
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