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%COMMUNAL PERSONAL INTEGRITY DISSONANCE 850908
Jack has an intuitive sense of who he is. He knows
intuitively what kind of person he can be with integrity,
what it would be like to be true to himself. Jack senses
that at present he is not being fully himself. Jack
experiences cognitive dissonance because of the difference
between his behavior and his sense of what it would be
like were he most truly himself.
Jill has a communal sense of who she is. She knows
through her social senses what kind of woman her community
expects her to be, what it would be like for her to be
true to her communal expectations. She senses that at
present she is not being fully her communal self. Jill
experiences cognitive dissonance because of the difference
between who she is and her sense of what it would be like
were she most fully incorporated as a respected member of
her community.
Jack and Jill sense cognitive dissonances of two
kinds. To be true to one's own community. To minimize
one dissonance may involve increasing the other. How one
seeks to minimize one dissonance will involve the nature
and extent of the other dissonance. Each dissonance
impinges upon the other.
The personal and communal integrity of Jack, Jill and
their community depends upon how they resolve their
cognitive dissonances while being fully true to each other
as they can discover how to be. Disintegrative
conceptions of how to be true to self and/or the community
can occasion conflict between the need to be true to self
and the need to be true to one's own community which
conceived one's own self. Creative conceptions of how the
community might better be true to the potentials of its
members can occasion similar conflicts and cognitive
dissonance. Whether or not the community integrates or
disintegrates depends upon the manner in which the
community and its members deal with such conflicts and
dissonances.
A community can not have unity if it is not true to
the creative potentials of its members. Members of a
community can not fulfill their creative potentials while
undermining their own need for community understanding and
support by doing violence to the integrity of the
community. Personal and communal integrity depend upon
each other.
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