This-essay is a7703291.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PERCEPTIVE SUB-CULTURES 770329 Perceptive people often get on the nerves of typical citizens who are thoughtless participants in collusions. Perceptive people ask the embarrassing questions which others seek to avoid and/or suppress. Such questions may be asked non-verbally by failing to demonstrate enthusiasm for the dominant values of the collusion. Thus it is difficult for profoundly perceptive people to appear "normal" within a collusive society. As they come to perceive the lack of integrity within the society ---they become a threat to the society. Perceptive individuals find it difficult to maintain their perceptivity as isolated individuals. Thus collusive societies develop ways to isolate perceptive individuals, lest through their perceptivity they undermine the collusions which hold the society together. In their mild form such efforts consist of merely treating profoundly perceptive people as non-persons ---pretending that they are not present, even though they are. To ignore someone alienates them more profoundly than to disagree, argue, or fight with them. Such a mild form of the collusive society's coping strategy is powerful, but leaves perceptive people the option of forming perceptive sub- cultures. Alienated perceptive people may cope by learning how to identify each other among those who are alone in the conformal crowd. They need to learn to make themselves know to each other, and to recognize each other without calling undue attention to themselves. Thus they develop non-verbal languages and signals which are not understood by the dominant members of the society. They may learn the importance of privacy and how to use it to meet to effectively prepare to petition for redress of grievances- --if such petitions are permitted. They learn the importance of freedoms of communication and how to affirm them --- in ways which are not directly threatening to the dominant culture. Perceptive sub-cultures encounter a major difficulty if they are small to the point of involving very few members. Very small sub-cultures may not include within themselves sufficient diversity of perception and/or enough people to free them of special interest biases. Thus they may become the victims of being too small and intimate---even as they are the victims of a dominant culture which is too large and impersonal. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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