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%MISSING REALITIES TABOO COMMUNITY INTEGRITY CHILD+841110
%OPENNESS HONESTY 841110
It is difficult to recognize that something which is
not familiar is missing. It may be important to the
welfare of people who are unfamiliar with it, yet they may
not readily recognize that it is missing from their lives,
community, relationships, etc. Even though they may have
known it to some extent, in the past, it is difficult to
be aware of that which is notable by its absence.
Recognition of an absence of an essential component
of life is made even more difficult if by its being
unfamiliar it is feared. Even thought it may be
essential to a healthy life, it may be feared due to
lack of familiarity. Childhood circumstances may have
engendered fears by association not fully understood.
Adults may have learned to fear in their childhood that
which is essential to life, and so repressed from
expression that which they learned to fear. The child
when grown to adulthood may then pass on that fear to the
next generation, and so the child can be the determinant
of the adult. Neither children nor adults are likely to
recognize what that essential to life is missing from
their community. They may not even recognize the
nature of that which they fear, and much less
recognize that the unknown that they fear is
essential to the integrity of their community, and to
them as members of the community.
The dynamics of perverted community interactions can
generate a collusion which makes taboo that which is
essential to individual and communal integrity. The
participants in the collusion out of fear regard some
unknown essential component of integrated communal living
as taboo, and covertly threaten to punish any member of
their community who recognizes it as essential to the
integration of their community into a genuine unity so
that it would be with-unity, a genuine community. Such
situations are probably much more common than we
recognize. How are we to safely recognize them and deal
with them wisely?
We can not integrate our fragmented collections of
people into genuine communities with unity and
integrity---unless we learn how to escape from our games
of mutual self deception, our collusions and the taboos
which they enforce. Since the essence of collusion is
deception---we can escape only through transcendent
dedications to the promotion of safe contexts for
openness and honesty.
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