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%CONFLICTING COHERENCES 850804
The formal institutions and traditions of a society
may maintain a sense of coherence in belief and
perceptions of social realities via collusions and taboos
which enforce a false set of beliefs, pretenses. Such
beliefs may pertain to religion, sexuality, economics,
war, family life, finite resources, human finitude, etc.
Minorities within a society may see through the
collusions of their society, or participate in collusions
which are in conflict otherwise with the formal
institutions and traditions of their society. The
minorities seek coherence and integrity in ways which are
in conflict with the ways in which the formal institutions
and traditions seek to achieve coherence and integrity.
If the society as a whole is repressive towards non-
conformists the minorities must operate "underground" to
avoid overt threats to their integrity by those who
through violent behavior would seek to maintain the kind
of integrity promoted by formal institutions and
traditions. The violent behavior is called for due to the
collusions and taboos.
The "legitimate" use of violence to promote integrity
is a sign that there are collusions and taboos operating
in the definition of what is real, valuable, worthy of
respect, integrative. Violence is fundamentally
disintegrative. To use violence to attempt to promote
integrity is to use disintegrative tools to attempt to
promote integration.
The theory of social integration is not whole unless
it gives due account of the causes and consequences of
violence used in attempts to coerce conformity to
conventional/formal definitions of integrity.
Disintegration is a consequence of violence among
competing attempts to achieve integrity, violence used to
try to force a "fit" in keeping with a collusion. Any
attempt to eliminate violence by coercive means is not
based upon an integrative theory which is consistent with
the facts of life. A resort to coercion/violence is a
confession of inadequacy as regards the understanding of
how to promote personal and social integrity.
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