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%CONSENSUS ABOUT FEELINGS 791220
Intelligent people spend a great deal of their
limited time out of concern that there be consensus about
formal statements regarding reality. They work to achieve
agreement about what is real, true, honorable, desirable,
virtuous, moral, Godly, legal, objective, accurate,
patriotic, realistic, practical, etc. Consensus is so
important to them that they will settle for the appearance
of consensus at the price of undermining the dialogue by
which meaningful consensus might emerge. They are more
concerned with formal agreement than with mutual awareness
and mutual understanding that grow through uninhibited
dialogue of all kinds. Their concerns occasion formal
processes which tend toward violence, rather than toward
love.
Formal concerns tend to be most successful and
productive in the area of objective realities. Thus the
formalization of education tends to move a culture toward
the objectification of reality, and away from realities
which do not yield to objectification; e.g., persons,
feelings, emotions, and God. A formal culture tends not
to affirm, permit, approve, agree with, acknowledge,
confirm, encourage or in other ways respond positively
toward non-objective realities. A formal culture tends to
approach non-objective realities as if they were
objective, and use the resulting disappointments as
grounds for rejecting the non-objective realities as being
unreal.
Formal education tends to be dominated by experts who
are presumed to embody are important consensus, and are
empowered to certify students who become accultured to the
consensus which the experts embody. The power to certify
tends to become coercive, and helps to motivate students
to internalize the conventional consensus, even if it does
not "feel" like it will contribute to their integrity. If
the experts with the power to certify have enough power
and the certification is highly enough desired, then
students may exchange their own feelings --- for
conventional feelings which are consistent with the
consensus---even though doing so violates their personal
integrity. The exchange helps to contribute to the
augmentation and solidification of the consensus which
thus violates the students' integrity. In keeping with
the consensus all the enmeshed participants feel good
about the reduction of conflict.
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