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       %FROM EXPERIENCES TO IDEALS VALUES AND DOGMA 850325

     The ideals,  values and dogma which a person accepts,
creates  and/or affirms ultimately flow from the  personal
experiences   of  the  person;  they are a   response   to
those experiences.   Intellectual endeavors,  logic,   and
reasoning are  efforts  to make sense in some coherent way
of   those experiences;  efforts to integrate them into  a
whole   which  appears  to   have   integrity   with   the
experiences.     One  person's ideals,   values  and dogma
may  not  make sense to  another person;  not for lack  of
commonly  agreed  to  logic,   but for  lack   of   common
experiences.   The differences  in  their experiences  may
be  unknown to both,   because  both  have experiences  of
which the other knows nothing.

     The   greater  the  alienation  and  suspicion  among
people,   the   more experiences they will have which  are
unknown   to  others;    e.g.,   because more  taboos  and
collusions  may  be operating which inhibit the sharing of
meaningful  personal experiences.    Due to such  unshared
experiences  there   are bound  to   be  misunderstandings
and   disagreements  about ideals,     values  and  dogma.
In    the     extreme     such   misunderstandings     and
disagreements   are  bound   to   erupt  into  destructive
violence.    In less extreme cases they are expressed   in
the  less obvious violence of coercive efforts to  control
each   other  through  manipulative   technologies.   Such
efforts  inhibit the  dialogue  which  might occasion  the
sharing  of  experiences in terms of which   to  transcend
the   misunderstandings   and   disagreements. Dialogue is
the way out of conflict,  yet conflict is often  permitted
to undermine dialogue.

     Too often all the focus is placed upon ideals, values
and  dogma  as if they were the ultimate realities.    Yet
they often obscure they very experiences which lead people
to be so committed to said ideals,  values and dogma.  Any
authority  which  obscures its own claim to  authority  is
open to profound suspicion.  Legitimate authority seeks to
establish  its own legitimacy in an open and  honest  way.
Only  illegitimate  authority  insists  on  obscuring  its
ground of being.
                                                                                                                               
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