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%ESCAPING COLLUSION PROBLEMS 851012
A group of people who are trapped in a collusion have
a problem. They only dimly understand the nature of their
problem. They dimly know that they have a problem, barely
aware that their problem is that they have made it a
problem to deal honestly with their problem. The focus of
their collusion is to make it taboo to realistically
describe and deal with the problem of cooperating in
escaping from their collusive game of mutual self
deception.
The rules of the collusion are implicit. The rules
say it is taboo to cooperate openly and honestly. If
participants in the collusion were free to cooperate
openly and honestly then they would be able to escape from
the collusion. The collusion says that escape from the
collusion is taboo. The problem is how to escape. the
collusion says there is no need to escape so that there is
no problem. Still participants feel and know that there
is a problem, but the collusion inhibits describing and
understanding the nature of the problem in any intimate
cooperative way.
The purpose of the collusion is to conceal itself
from the participants in the collusion; i.e., the ultimate
purpose of the participants in the collusion is conceal
from themselves the cooperative ways in which they are
refusing to face disturbing realities of their creaturely
life. Collusions flow from cooperative fear. People do
not want to acknowledge finitude so they tacitly cooperate
in creating cooperative ways of denying finitude. Thus
one of the most important tacit rules is to make it taboo
to cooperate in acknowledging finitude by breaking the
tacit claims and rules of the collusion.
Collusion participants expect that their ultimate
security will be achieved by faithfully defending their
collusion, for their experience is that they feel most
insecure when their collusion is threatened. Thus, they
cooperate in defending their sincerely held convictions
that they have the means of transcending finitude. They
cleverly devise ways of denying finitude while going
through the motions of acknowledging finitude, for that
makes the evasion more difficult to expose. A lie is
more difficult to expose if it takes the overt from of
saying the opposite of the message which it actually
conveys. Anyone trying to expose the lie will then look
like a fool, and the false message will continue to be
affirmed by a falsehood garbed in the appearances of
truth.
Faithful collusion participants defend the "truths"
of the collusion which conceal and carry with them the
denials of finitude which are central to maintaining the
collusion, and which are the purpose of the collusion.
Their problem is to find a way to cooperatively recognize
that the solution to their problems resides in integrative
ways of affirming their finitude in loving ways.
The problem with love is that it leads to behavior
which acknowledges finitude in intimate ways which entail
vulnerability as an essential ingredient of security.
This makes no sense and is in complete violation of all
the tacit rules and "truths" of the collusion! The means
of Love must be taboo because they are in violation of
God's Law. Techniques must be devised to prevent such
violations even if the means are ultimately violent.
Violent means serve the purposes of the collusion by
promoting alienation which helps undermine the intimacy
which might lead to honest admissions of finitude. Since
the ultimate purpose of the collusion is to deny finitude
it helps the collusion to undermine integrative
cooperative behavior which deals realistically with the
realities of creaturely existence.
To successfully deny finitude one must deny death,
ending. To deny ending one must deny beginning. That
which is eternal does not end and does not begin. To deny
finitude one must be successful in denying both birth and
death; e.g., sexuality, increasing entropy, the mixing
together of unlike elements. That which is eternal is
regarded as perfect, pure, unmixed, unconfused, without
fusion, able to stand alone without need of any
fulfillment to survive with meaning. Participants in the
collusion thus must deny and obscure their sexual needs
for integrative intimate behavior which is and leads to
recreation.
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