This-essay is a8505152.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %NON-COERCIVE FEED-BACK CONSENSUS 850515 A consensus is not genuine if arriving at it entailed coercion; for, when there is coercion there is not commonality of feeling, of sense, of sensation. There is a consensus only when there is a commonality of sensation, of sympathy. The presence of coercion indicates a lack of sympathy and so an absence of consensus. Often negative feed-back is used in a coercive way to achieve an apparent consensus. Some "participants" receive the covert message that their feelings, opinions, ideals, values, etc. are not sufficiently important to merit the attention and concern of the group as it forms its apparent consensus. When the feelings and sensations of a member of a group are repressed by such negative feed-back, a genuine consensus is not reached because of the lack of sympathy and respect for the sensations of the minority of the group. Coercions is often achieved via tacit threats of rejection. People are in effect told that if they do not give assent they will be rejected, cast out, excommunicated from the group. Their fear of rejection motivates them to give tacit assent while having feelings, sensations, of resentment and frustration. Their sensations of resentment and frustration are symptoms that consensus has not been reached, and violence of some form may become the expression of the repressed sensations with respect to which members of the coercive group maintain their common ignorance. In a collusion participants tell each other, in effect, if you speak the truth so as to expose our mutual self deception, you will be rejected as having lost contact with reality. Conformity is the rule. Creative insights into the game of mutual self deception is forbidden. Consensus is not genuine because sympathy towards genuinely honest people is taboo. Without genuine sympathy genuine mutual awareness of personal sensations is absent and consensus is absent. Collusive consensus is fake. In the absence of genuine feed-back there is ignorance, or worse, deception. Wise decisions can not be based upon ignorance or deception. Thus a consensus which is achieved through coercion can not be the basis for wise decisions and actions. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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