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                        %DISAVOWING EXCOMMUNICATION 771024

     There   are   many  instances  in  which   meaningful
excommunication   is  impossible  until  participants   in
pseudo-communication  explicitly disavow  excommunication.
As  long  as  participants in conversation fear  that  the
other  may  resort to excommunication,  so long will  they
fear  to communicate openly and honestly with each  other.
They  will play games with each other including  collusive
games of mutual self deception.

     Collusive  games  of  mutual self  deception  may  be
motivated   by   a  cultural  context   which   encourages
excommunication--even  though  participants in  the  games
have  not  explicitly  threatened  to  excommunicate  each
other.    The threat is an essential part of the  cultural
context,    quite  apart  from  any  explicit  intent   or
consciousness  on  the  part of individual members of  the
culture.   The culture  is  not just the sum of individual
intents and perceptions, it is more.  Thus for individuals
to transcend  the  debilitating aspects of their  culture,
they must transcend more then  their individual misleading
orientations.   For open communication to be possible  not
only  must  they transcend  the  excommunicative  cultural
tendencies/orientations;   they  must  communicate   their
transcendence  to  whomever they wish to engage in  honest
meaningful  dialogue---and thus disavow excommunication as
a respectable manipulative technique.

     To disavow excommunication is to affirm unconditional
acceptance  of another person.   This can be very  costly,
and lead to much suffering.   Such disavowal thus involves
great  risk---with  uncertain  advantages  to  the  person
seeking  to such a disavowal.  Within  an  excommunicative
society the  members are likely to ask themselves "What is
in it for  me?"  According to technocratic computations of
profit and  competitive  goal-achievement---there  is  not
likely  to  be much gain for an  individual  in disavowing
excommunication.  Thus individuals are likely to behave in
common  in  taking advantage of the gains  to  individuals
found in excommunicative techniques---just as farmers took
advantage  of the common pasture to their individual gain,
and  to  the loss of the community as a whole.    Just  as
there  is a risk of The Tragedy of the Commons,   so  also
there   is   the   common   risk   of   The   Tragedy   of
Excommunication.
                                                                                                                               
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