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        %COLLUSIONS AND TABOOS' INSTRUMENTAL VALUES 861210

     Collusions and taboos are tragic instrumental  values
which lack integrity.

     It is not helpful to attack collusions and taboos  in
a  direct  way,   for such attacks will  be  perceived  as
attacks  upon  the noble goals to which  the  instrumental
ideals are dedicated.

     The  people  who promote and support  collusions  and
ideals---have  not clearly articulated either the ultimate
ideals and values which lead them, nor their understanding
of  the natural laws which govern the processes  by  which
their  collusions and taboos are expected to  promote  the
fulfillment  of  their unarticulated ultimate  ideals  and
values.

     Absent  such  clear articulation there  is  confusion
regarding the differences between the ultimate ideals  and
values  as  having to do with the  promotion  of  balanced
personal and communal integrity on the  one hand;  and the
dynamics  by which collusions  and taboos are expected  to
serve as worthy instrumental ideals and values  in support
of a coherent balance between promoting personal integrity
and promoting  communal integrity.    In its extreme forms
the  confusion  entails believing  that  the  instrumental
ideals  and  values  are appropriate foci of reverence and
worship;   i.e.,  proper idols   to   which  unquestioning
dedication should be directed.  To such confused people it
is  a  heresy  to question the idols,  a  violation of the
tacit rules of the collusive game of  mutual deception,  a
violation of the rules of the taboos;  so the guilty party
is   judged   worthy  of  excommunication   and   ultimate
alienation,  a  casting out of the fellowship of the  true
community.

     As members of a "true community"  are cast out of the
community,  the community gradually loses its "unity"  and
ceases  to  be  a comm-unity.   The logic  of  taboos  and
collusions  lack coherence;  the logic lacks integrity and
can not promote either personal or communal integrity.

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