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%COMFORTABLE COMMUNAL SELF PERCEPTION 800830
A person's self-perception may not be comfortable if
it is not communally affirmed. Who a person is depends
upon self-perception to a significant extent, and self-
perception is influenced by communal perception of self-
perception. Who a person is depends upon the person's
behavior, upon others' perceptions of that behavior, and
upon the person's own perception of their own behavior.
Members of a community may feel they have a right to be
informed about all aspects of a person's behavior---in
order to form an informed perception of the person's
behavior prior to affirming it. They may feel that they
have a right to suspend judgment until they are fully
informed about the person's behavior. They do not want to
discover later that they made the mistake of affirming a
person who, unknown to them, had engaged in improper
behavior. Thus, some people withhold affirmation from
people who insist upon keeping some aspects of their lives
private---and fail to behave in ways which still the fears
of judgmental persons who find it difficult to be
comfortable with their self perceptions in a nosey
community that does not respect people's rights to
privacy. Thus nosey communities are likely to have in
them members with identity problems---to the extent that
they have within them private persons.
Creative people are non-conformists in that they do
other than what has been traditionally done. Breaks with
tradition tend to generate anxiety on the part of
traditionalists, so creative people often are creative in
private---to minimize the anxiety of traditionalists.
Nosey people who do not respect the creative people's
right to privacy---are made anxious by their suspicions
that the creative people are violating traditional taboos
in private. Thus nosey people tend to violate creative
people's rights to privacy---and so create a social
context in which creative people experience identity
crises. It should be noted that the nosey people's
anxiety is occasioned by their private suspicions about
the creative people's private behavior. Thus nosey people
affirm their right to privacy as the grounds for denying
creative people's rights to privacy! Emotional immaturity
thus becomes the foundation for public policy!
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