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%DEFENDING A COLLUSION 770221
To maintain a collusion participants follow some
combination of strategies which will include some of the
following elements: (1) Ignore contrary data and personal
experiences, (2) Misinterpret contrary data and
personal experiences, (3) Misunderstand and/or discredit
critics, (4) Cleverly use traditional collusion-values to
make fun of profound-criticism of elements of the
collusion, (5) Set up and destroy straw-men
representations of critics, (6) Excommunicate any who
question the collusion.
Defenders of a collusion will thus tend to be in
communication only with participants in the collusion;
avoiding dialogue with those outside the collusion. When
outsiders challenge the point of view of participants in
the collusion, those services participants are likely to
hold revival meetings, rededication services, and write
papers reaffirming the traditional values and perspective
of the collusion. Such rituals are not without merit, for
they usually involve positive affirmations of real values.
Such values are not, however, sufficient grounds for the
unquestioned acceptance of all implications present in the
affirmations. Participants in a collusion cannot (through
dialogue among themselves) discover the nature of their
collusion. Excellence in scholarship, careful reasoning,
attention to detail, accuracy of numerical
measurements/computations, volumes of readings, etc. fail
to uncover the nature of the collusion --- so long as
participants communicate only with other participants
within their collusion.
When anybody undertakes a vigorous defense of their
traditional values and perspectives, it may be helpful to
examine the extent of dialogue between that person and the
critics who occasioned the defended. Is there real
dialogue? Is there a real effort to achieve mutual
awareness and mutual understanding? Do those who disagree
have any personal concern for each other's welfare? Do
they trust each other in spite of their basic differences
in values, perspectives, and interests? If the answers
to these questions tend towards the negative side---there
is ground for suspecting that a collusion is being
defended, rather than being transcended. The way out of a
collusion is through intimate dialogue, not debate.
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