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%FEAR'S FORBIDDEN EXPERIENCES & UNDERSTANDING 840618
We fear that which we do not understand. Through our
mutual fears we (through taboos and collusions)
repress experiences which we can not yet understand. We
forbid careful consideration, thought and
communications regarding those experiences which we most
fear---because we least understand them. Public
sharing of visions, fantasies, hopes and fears
about such repressed experiences are forbidden---
through tacit agreements and laws. Such tacit
agreements embarrass any legislators who attempt to make
them open and explicit in formal laws.
Through a tragic feed-back loop our fears promote
their own growth; our imperfect understanding inhibits
further understanding, and even represses such
little understanding as we may have. Our self-
awareness is reduced and our mutual awareness is
reduced. Because we fear the experiences which we can
not understand, we can not share them. Because we can
not share them, we can not think clearly about them; we
can not experience them clearly; we can not understand
them; we are forced to fear them and so we can not
understand them---and so through our mutual fear we
repress any clear awareness of them and repress any
effort to clearly understand them. The feed-back loops
form many interlacing cycles which undermine our
personal and communal integrity---by inhibiting self-
referential mutual awareness and communications.
To think and act wisely we must be free to openly and
honestly share our experiences and understanding. We must
be free of the feed-back loops by which fear deprives us
of the freedom to be open and honest about what is real to
us. Whatever deprives us of the freedom to be open and
honest is evil---in that it alienates us from each other
and from our-selves. The short term advantages of the
ideals which promote such evil consequences are
advantages which are not worth the long term ultimate
costs which they tragically lead to. We need to clearly
articulate and agree upon transcendent ideals which
will lead us to be free of disintegrative ideals which
imprison us with fear-full feed-back loops.
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