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%FEAR OF OTHERS' PRIVACY 821002
Some people are afraid of other people's privacy.
Such people fear that in privacy others might be violating
unspeakable taboos. Since such fearful people are unable
to speak of their fears of unspeakable taboos, they seek
assurances from all people that they are not violating in
private the unspeakable taboos. Such assurances must be
given without speaking of the unspeakable taboos, without
specifying in any clear way what the taboos are.
To grant the fearful people such assurances, means to
give up one's own privacy, to sacrifice it to the
fulfillment of the fearful people's needs on terms
dictated by the fearful people. The only terms which are
acceptable to the fearful people entail highly conformal
behavior and the opening up to public consideration all of
one's behavior; i.e., the assurance that one has no
private behavior which is withheld from public
knowledge and consideration. This is usually
accomplished via the internalization of the fears of
the fearful people; the enforcement of the taboos is
virtually impossible via external policing, so the
policing is internalized without clearly speaking or
writing down the taboos which are to be enforced. The
result is an unwritten code enforced by unauthorized
police via unauthorized punishments, all of which are
tacitly accepted by the fearful people and their
subjects. To question any of the procedures as
violations of due process, is to suggest that one is
oneself engaged in unauthorized taboo behavior in
privacy; one is thereby confessing to a violation of the
communal collusion---and so subject to excommunicative
punishment.
All of these procedures undermine the integrity of
the community by inhibiting open and honest dialogue about
what is real and true, and what people personally
experience; in contrast to what they have been taught to
experience, believe, think, and do. In the absence of
open and honest dialogue about such contrasts, the members
of the community lose contact with each other and
lose contact with reality. The people and the
community lose their integrity, and go insane.
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