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%UNFILTERED EXPERIENCES 770916
The sophisticated person has few unfiltered
experiences or perceptions. All is experienced /perceived
through the cultural baggage which the person has
acquired. The cultural baggage facilitates the perception
of a more understandable and controllable world, making
possible manipulative coping behavior which has survival
value to those who benefit from the cultural heritage.
Without the cultural heritage---coping behavior would not
be as effective/efficient; but it is acquired at a price
of loss of direct experiences of many essentially
mysterious realities. Culture engages in the repression
of mystery in exchange for the means to understanding and
control.
The possession of the means to understanding and
control may appear to be conditional upon the continued
and unexceptional filtration of experiences. There is
likely to be fear that making an exception and permitting
oneself unfiltered experiences may occasion the loss of
understanding and control in a permanent way. Such fear
transforms unfiltered experiences into frightening
experiences which threaten to crack the egg-shell of the
protective cultural world view. People who attempt to
crack that egg-shell in order to hatch into a new life---
are perceived with terror and so are seen as terrible
people. The defenders of the cultural heritage are bound
to take steps to repress their mysterious/terrible
behavior. Since egg crackers' behavior is not
understandable from within the culture which they
challenge, they tend to be excommunicated by members of
the challenged culture. Such excommunications help
members of the challenged culture to avoid unfiltered
experiences; i.e., to maintain the culture's collusions
about the ultimate nature of reality. Reality may be
experienced only through the culture's filters, it being
taboo to remove the filters.
Repression of mystery is one of the
functions/consequences of culture. The more understanding
a creature has, the less mystery there is in its life.
Technocrats believe that the most advanced creators are
those to whom nothing is mysterious, because they perceive
everything through dark filters even as they examine
themselves in a mirror, face to face.
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