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%HONESTY ABOUT DESIRE 761118
There are many human desires which human limitations
make impossible to fulfill. There is not enough time and
energy to satisfy all normal desires. This is not grounds
for denying the reality of the desires, or for not
sharing the awareness of the desires. There is
satisfaction in sharing with others the awareness of your
desires, even when time and energy does not permit the
desire to be satisfied. A dedication to openness leads to
an openness and honesty about desires, even when it is not
practical to fulfill the desire through decisions and
actions motivated by the shared desires. The sharing of
desires can be meaningful apart from the fulfillment of
them. Through the sharing, self and other come to know
each other more fully. Should the impracticality of
fulfilling the desires lead to the repression of the
desires? Then self loses touch not only with self, but
loses touch with others also. Thus alienation is often
born.
It is difficult to distinguish between the expression
of the awareness of a desire, and the expression of an
intent to fulfill the desire. This is true both in the
articulation of the awareness/intent and in the
perception of other's articulation. In a conformist
society the expression of an intent to fulfill a tabooed
desire is likely to be treated with a severity much like
that accorded the fulfillment of the desire. Because of
the difficulty in distinguishing between the expression of
the awareness of a desire, and the expression of an intent
to fulfill a desire, the conformist society will thus tend
to treat the expression of an awareness of a desire with
the severity much like that accorded the fulfillment of
the desire. Thus, members of a conformist society must
take steps to avoid revealing to any potential judge any
desire which the society has tabooed. Each member of a
conformist society tends towards internalization of the
taboos, and so each member is a potential judge. Each
member of a conformist society must repress awareness of
tabooed desires, lest their conscience pass judgement
upon them and they find themselves unacceptable.
Conformists cannot be honest with themselves about their
own desires, much less be honest with each other. Thus
sin abounds in a conformist society---and so also the
fruits of sin; violence, misunderstanding,tension, etc.
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