This-essay is a7911081.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 ========================================================== %IDENTITY THROUGH BONDING 791108 There are many kinds of bonding: sexual, family, neighborhood, school, lodge, professional, religious, national, etc. Corresponding to each kind of bonding there is an aspect of identity and personal motivation. Who we are, what our motivations are, what we do, how we see ourselves, etc. all depend upon bondings. Bonding is not a rational, cognitive, intellectual, logical, or similar act. It is more like the imprinting of a baby to its mother---as in the imprinting of a baby chick to the mother hen upon hatching. The bonding is affective, emotional; a matter of feeling. Bonding is more a matter of instinct than of deliberate decision. A person gains an identity more through bonding to other persons, sub-cultures, and communities --- than through drawing logical conclusions from carefully considered data and inter relationships. Bonding is often rationalized. If reasoning is regarded as important for formal reasons, then after bonding has occurred --- formal reasons for the bonding are likely to be presented to justify the bonding within formal discussions. Such formal justification did not occasion the bonding. The formalities of rationalization tend to obscure the nature of the bonding process. The process is not revealed by the rationalization which justifies bonding. Thus formal inquiries into the "why" of bonding are not likely to reveal much, regardless of the sophistication of the analysis of the responses to such inquiries. Those who are bonded answer from within the context of their bonding, not from within an unbiased context. Those who are not bonded in one way, are bonded in another way --- and respond to formal inquires from within their own biased context. Bonding can not be meaningfully understood by people who are not bonded. The lack of bonding frees them not only from bias, but from meaning and understanding. Meaning and understanding depend upon being bonded to some people and a social context and so having a perspective from which to view reality. Without a shared perspective there is no shared reality. Without bonding there is no shared perspective. Education is a process of bonding. An educational process can not be understood or humanized without perceiving the bonding which is central to it. (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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