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                %PERSONAL VERSUS COMMUNAL REALITIES 860712

In a collusive community (?) there are members of th
community   (?).    In  like  manner  there  are  communal
realities (?)   which  are unreal to some members  of  the
community (?).

     In  such a situation it is questionable whether there
is "unity" which is the characteristic of a community, and
thus the question of unity marks the community (?).

     Collusions   are  marked  by  conflicts  between  the
realities  of  thinking,   questioning,   members  of  the
society,  and the "truths"  of the society which have been
created  by  collusive  self  deception.    The  lack   of
congruity  between the realities of the thoughtful members
of  the  society and the realities which  are  "officially
real"  is the mark of the lack of integrity in a collusive
community (?).  When integrity is questionable the "unity"
of  comm"unity"   is  questionable  and it is questionable
whether there is a community in the society.

     For there to be unity in a community the members must
constantly  be  checking  to see if  there  is  congruence
between the private realities as known  by the members  of
the   community  and  the  official  realities  which  are
affirmed by the community.   Official  realities  ten   to
become  institutionalized  in  static structures which get
out of date by not changing within a changing society. The
community  can  disintegrate  by  virtue  of  insufficient
change in  institutions   which  embody   the  community's
conceptions  of communal realities;  creating by virtue of
insufficient    updating    a    tension    between    the
institutionalized  realities and  the realities of private
lives.    Conflict can  thus arise  through  the  lack  of
congruence    in    change   as   between   private    and
institutionalized realities.   For a community to maintain
its  integrity it must promote the growth of institutional
realities  so  that  they continue to  be  congruent  with
private realities.  This may be done by institutionalizing
a commitment  to reconcile  conflicts between personal and
communal  realities;  helping members to affirm  essential
communal  realities  and  helping the community to  affirm
essential  personal  realities,  with due respect for  the
fact  that each kind is essential to the continued reality
of the other.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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