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%FORBIDDEN DESIRES 770911
Forbidden desires are those which through the
operation of taboos and collusions tend to become
repressed and generate subconscious conflict and tension.
Internalized law enforcement and punishment operate from
outside each self. Legalists behave in ways which will
occasion the interjection of their systematic program for
behavior into persons WHETHER or not it is appropriate to
the unique individuals. The conflict between the
legalists' definitions of good and evil on the one hand;
and each person's unique needs, desires, aspirations,
visions, instincts, hopes, etc. on the other hand; thus
becomes a conflict within each person.
The acceptance of an injunction against certain
desires as being legitimately forbidden---makes it
impossible for honesty to prevail between self and other
on the one hand, and between the dichotomous selves into
which each person is fragmented on the other hand.
Forbidden desires block communication and occasion
dishonesty, deception, collusions, violations of
integrity, dichotomies within cultures and selves; i.e.,
sin. Technocrats as legalists try to eliminate sins by
forbidding desires for what they "know" to be "evil". They
thereby occasion the sin, blockage of communication, which
generates the sins they ostensibly are working to
eliminate.
When we can not be honest with ourselves and others
about what we desire, we become sinful, losing touch with
ourselves and others. This is particularly the case when
the forbidden desires pertain to subjective states of
consciousness which involve vulnerability. For this
reason they tend to involve many rules regarding
affectionate and sexual relationships---forbidding many of
the desires relating to such relationships. The
forbidding of those desires makes it difficult, if not
impossible, to be honest about those desires. The
fragmentation and frustrations thereby generated---
occasion much of the physical and sexual violence which
the legalists are attempting to eliminate through the use
of inappropriate technologies.
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