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%COLLUSIVE OBJECTIVE REALITIES CULTURE VALUE+790606
%INTEGRITY QUESTION THREAT 790606
Objective realities are those realities which members
of a sub-culture universally agree are real. Thus each
sub-culture is characterized by what its members
universally agree are objective realities. Sub-cultures
differ somewhat regarding objective realities. What is
real in one sub-culture is not necessarily objectively
real in another sub-culture. Collusions often play an
essential role in determining what is objectively real.
The values and identity of a sub-culture may be dependent
upon its conceptions of its objective realities. For any
member of the culture to question the reality of one of
the sub-culture's objective realities---will thus threaten
the values and identity of the sub-culture. In addition,
for any member of the culture to regard as objectively
real, some reality which the sub-culture has defined as
"not real", (perhaps because it will not fit into the sub-
culture's framework of explanations) will also threaten
the values and identity of the sub-culture. Members of
the sub-culture who so threaten the values and identity of
the sub-culture, are thoughtlessly excommunicated; the
sub-culture does not think about what it is doing---for to
do so would be to come to terms with the challenge, and so
to surrender the values and identity of the sub-culture.
Through such thoughtless excommunications the collusions
of a sub-culture are maintained and its "objective"
realities are preserved.
Not all sub-culture's objective realities are
internally consistent. Collusions lack integrity and so
objective realities based upon collusions which lack
integrity will be objective realities which lack
integrity. Under inter-sub-culture stimulation the
collusions of a sub-culture may be challenged, its lack of
integrity exposed, and the lack of integrity of its
objective realities may be exposed. The members of the
sub-culture may experience pressures to admit that some of
their objective realities can no longer be sustained---and
that other realities which the sub-culture sought to
exclude from consciousness may helpfully be admitted to
the status of objective realities.
Some sub-cultures regard as objectively real the fact
that there is only one true objective reality. Other sub-
cultures do not regard that as a sustainable reality, and
perceive many alternative objective realities.
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