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%FORBIDDEN QUESTIONS TOPICS PERCEPTIONS FACTS+790808
%ABSENCES CHILD COLLUSION+790808
%CONSENSUS TABOO COMMUNICATE 790808
Collusions are maintained in part by making certain
questions be forbidden questions. In unspoken ways it is
made clear that certain topics, perceptions, and questions
are not to be brought up---because they so obviously need
to be brought up, and none of the responsible members of
the sub-culture ever bring them up. They are very
systematically ignored, even though ever present. Any
hint of them brings deadly non-verbal messages of
impending excommunication to whoever goes farther in that
direction.
The infant born into a family learns which topics,
words, feelings, desires, etc. are, and are not,
expressed. The person who begins at a new school, job,
organization, community, etc. learns which are the
forbidden questions. The learning is based as much upon
absences---as upon presences. The manner of reaction of
people to hints of asking forbidden questions delimits the
boundaries which must not be crossed---even without the
boundaries ever being crossed. We learn which boundaries
are not to be approached, even without becoming clearly
aware of the nature of the boundaries or what is on the
other side of them. The learning process is below the
conscious level.
Forbidden questions often violate peoples'
communication rights. The collusions which enforce the
taboo do violence to the integrity of the victims of the
collusions. The victims can not communicate honestly
about the topics which are taboo. They can not gather
unbiased data or evaluate it without bias. The victims
can not draw reliable conclusions because of the violation
of their communication rights. Legitimate consensus can
not be reached, because illegitimate consensus is enforced
by the collusions.
To facilitate the asking of creative new questions---
communication rights should be affirmed, defended, and
extended. Those values which call into question people's
communication rights should be re-evaluated to see if they
deliver the benefits that they are presumed to offer.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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