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                 %LEGALISTS UNDERSTANDABLE BEHAVIOR 791122

     Emotionally immature legalists promote understandable
behavior  to minimize their being ill-at-ease.    Behavior
which  they  can  not  understand in terms  of  their  own
experience  and cognitive categories threatens them,   and
they  tend  to inhibit such threatening  behavior  through
their  legal  actions.   By their own definitions  all  of
their  own  behavior is perfectly legal,   no  matter  how
devoid of love it may be.  Thus lovers who are violated by
such  legal  behavior have no legal recourse by  which  to
defend their loving behavior which threatens legalists who
can  not understand love.   Lovers can not with  integrity
limit   their   behavior  to  such  as  can   be   readily
categorized,   labeled,  and filed away in a catalogue  of
permitted  behavior.   To become well regulated automatons
would be for their love to die,  and they are not disposed
to  commit  that  kind  of suicide,  even  though  by  the
legalists' standards it is both legal and desirable.

     Legalists  use  more  than just legal  procedures  to
promote understandable conformal behavior.  To more subtle
tools of tradition,  taboo, ritual,  language,  collusion,
education,  professionalism, etc. are also used to inhibit
behavior  which is not understandable to those  in  power.
Creative people are encouraged to conform to tradition and
not  rock the boat.   Taboos operate to inhibit the taking
of un-called for initiatives.  Solemn rituals and language
embodies  the  best of past culture in ways which  promote
conventional understanding, rather than the exploration of
new  experiences  and  perceptions.    The  collusions  of
education   and   professions  insure  that   conventional
understanding  is passed on to the new generation in  ways
which  will  insure that creative students will  learn  to
think and feel as the last generation did.  All of this is
made   more  acceptable  by  permitting  low   levels   of
creativity  and  initiative  within the paradigms  of  the
culture.   It appears that new things are happening---when
in  fact most people are imprisoned in helpful constraints
which  enable emotionally immature people to cope  without
excessive threat.  Thus the culture which gives people the
foundations  for meaning and coping also keeps  them  from
too  rapidly  making progress into new ways of living  and
relating to each other.

                                                                                                                               
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