This-essay is a7710181.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 ========================================================== %PERMISSION NOT DENIED 771018 In a thoroughly authoritarian/technocratic society there is a significant difference between permission not being denied, and permission being granted. People may learn to behave according to the principle that the absence of an explicit granting of permission---is equivalent to a denial of permission. Such people are free to do only those things which they are explicitly told they may or must do, and thus are not free to be genuinely human or creative. They can not be spontaneous, imaginative, initiators, inventors, creators, or revolutionaries. What authority would grant permission to commoners to launch a revolution against it? What collusive group will grant permission to imaginative people to transcend the collusion? What businessmen would grant permission to an inventor to invent something which will put them out of business? Humanity suffers when people are punished for not first seeking permission to be themselves. When human fulfillment and acceptability are authoritatively defined---assertive/violent people stand ready to enforce moral and ethical codes---and passive people sit still and conform to the standards of the assertive/violent people. The exceptions to such behavior flow from a transcendence of the acceptance of authoritative definitions of what constitutes grounds for human acceptability; replacing those grounds with an ultimate concern for Love working to keep open channels of communication and acceptability. Transcendent humans do not make acquisition of permission a central feature of being human. Permission is not a central category to genuinely free people because they are not submissive to authoritarian control and manipulation. The manner in which babies and young children are treated often occasions their adult perception of the significance of permission not being. Children who had to ask permission to be themselves will grow up to be adults who can be manipulated and controlled by assertive/violent leaders who like to manage other people's lives through the use of objective and subjective technologies. Organized moralists, terrorists, criminals, revolutionaries, and militarists all take charge of people who can not act without explicit permission being granted. (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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