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%OPEN NON-SECRETIVE COMMUNITY 780326
What would it be like to live in an open non-
secretive community? A community in which no person would
have any need to keep anything secret, but would not be
compelled to sacrifice desired privacy. Shame would be an
unknown; for mistakes, errors, failures, blunders, and the
like would not be defined to be occasions for shame.
Taboos would not be found---for taboos lead to needs to
keep secrets. There would be no inclination to punish---
for secrecy is a means of avoiding punishments. There
would be no elitist groups---for secrecy is a means to
maintaining the appearance of qualification for membership
in elitist groups. There would be few lonely people, for
often loneliness flows form falling into secretive
patterns of self-defense. There would not be any
friendships strained by the need for secrecy about the
friendship, because no friendships would be regarded as
illicit. There would be no moments of embarrassment when
people foolishly brought up forbidden topics of
conversation, because there would be no forbidden topics
to promote secrecy.
Students would learn quickly because they could be
open about what they did not understand and could not do.
Students could admit their mistakes and ask for help in
profiting from the experience of having made a mistake.
Teachers could learn from their students because they
would have no need to appear to be in conformity with some
standard ideal form of a teacher. Students would be free
to tell their teachers what their needs were---affective
as well as cognitive. Teachers would be aware of factors
which were inhibiting their students' growth and
development, and could take steps to minimize such
inhibitions---for they would not have to pretend that the
inhibitions did not exist.
Crime as we know it would not be common in such an
open society, for people's needs would be met in the
normal course of daily intercourse. Violations of the
social conventions would not be required for people to
meet their basic needs for food, shelter, clothing,
health, recreation, learning, growth, change, personal
affirmations, affection, self-confidence, privacy,
freedom, etc. People's needs could be openly made known
and ways found to do the best possible job of meeting all
known needs. Individuals would not have to play games of
mutual self deception in competitive efforts to win at
others' expense.
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