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                             %COMMUNAL DOUBLE BINDS 840614

     An individual can place another individual person  in
a  double  bind  by making mandatory  the  performance  of
contradictory   actions.     If  the mandate  is  full  of
power---the  double bind creates a situation in which  the
terms   of  the    mandate  can  not  be   fulfilled   and
failure     is      guaranteed,   and  so  punishment   is
guaranteed.

     A community can internalize in its traditions,   laws
and taboos contradictory mandates which generate  communal
double   binds---by  making  mandatory   the   performance
of contradictory actions.  If failure to fulfill the terms
of  the  contradictory  mandates implies alienation   from
the  community  of  those perceived to be responsible  for
such  failure,   the pattern of mandates  will  tragically
undermine  the  personal  and communal  integrity  of  the
community.  The community will not survive with meaning.

     To  survive  with meaning communities  need  creative
members  who  are  empowered   to  expose  tendencies   of
communities    to    develop   internally    contradictory
traditions,    laws and taboos.   To survive with  meaning
communities  need coherence which  flows  from  a profound
integrity  in the ultimate values and ideals which  define
the   nature   of  the  community.     The   exposure   of
incoherence   in  values   and   ideals    is   preventive
medicine    which   protects   the   community     against
disintegrating due to communal double binds.

     Insecure   members of communities that are  suffering
from   the tragic  consequences  of incoherent values  and
ideals---often  express  their insecurity  by  seeking  to
repress awareness  of  such incoherence.    Such  immature
persons  prefer  to  hide their heads in the  sand.   Such
behavior    accentuates   the   tendencies   towards   and
tragic  costs  of communal incoherence.  The repression of
threatening insights undermines the integrity and survival
value of a community in which such repression occurs.

                                                                                                                               
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