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                         %LACK OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT 860908

     The absence of community support for an activity,  X,
which promotes both personal and communal integrity, leads
to an absence with significance.   An absence of community
consensus as  to  what that  significance is absent, bears
further significance.

     If  X is repressed through the taboos of a collusion,
the  absence  of community support will  be  invisible  to
members  of the community who are the  participant/victims
in the collusion.   The significance of the absence is the
presence  of the  collusion,   as  is  the  absence of the
consensus as to what that is significant is absent.

     The absence of  community support for activity X  may
signify  a simple ignorance of the power of  X  to promote
both  personal  and community integrity.   There may be no
collusion.  A  simple  revelation  may  initiate community
support    for   activity   X.     The   significance   of
the absence may not always be of the same kind.  Care must
be  take not to interpret the significance  of the absence
in purely prejudicial ways.

     The  absence of  community  support of activity X may
signify a community decision that in the face  of  limited
community  resources  there  are  other  activities  which
better  qualify  for  support.    That  judgment  may   be
misguided,  due to ignorance,  due to faulty logic, due to
self-serving, etc.   Perhaps the community is mislead by a
faulty  paradigm;  e.g.,  one focusing in a misleading way
upon self, ego, soul, religiosity, etc.

     Language  may  blind communal thought to  the  extent
that the community will not provide support to integrative
behavior.    In the absence of  words  for some  realities
people  concerned  with those realities may not be able to
attract communal support.  The community may be the victim
of  language  driven misconceptions,  and not be  able  to
conceive of certain realities because it does not have the
words for the appropriate concepts.

     A  community may not offer support  because there has
been no overt or recognized tacit request for support; yet
would offer support were there such a request.  Some times
those who need support need to take the initiative to  ask
for  support.    In  the absence of  a  request  there  is
ignorance,   indifference and/or diversion which stands in
the way of offering support.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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