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     %CRITERIA FOR INTEGRATIVE TABOOS & GUILT 871107      
                                                                                                                               
     Each   culture   is  defined  by  what  criteria   it                                                                     
implicitly  uses  to decide what shall be taboo,  and  for                                                                     
what one should feel guilty and be shamed.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     Most   cultures  implicitly  teach  the  infants  and                                                                     
children  that   certain  experiences  are   taboo,    and                                   
that   dialogue   about    being  participant   in    such                           
experiences    is   taboo;    so adults in   the   culture                                   
experience guilt upon having  memories  of,   and   giving                                   
consideration   to,     their   participation   in    such                           
experiences.    The culture is defined in  large  part  by                                   
what   experiences   it  cannot  openly    and    publicly                                   
integrate into the collective community consciousness.  
                                                                                                                               
     In each culture there are open and covert messages as                                                                     
to what is most important.  If what is most important does                                                                     
not include all that is essential to personal and communal                  
integrity,     the  culture  disintegrates;      integrity                                          
is  sacrificed to serve that which the culture regards  as                                 
most  important.    The dishonest service of  what appears                                                                  
to be most   important    leads   directly   to   personal                                                                 
and communal disintegration in such cultures.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     People who  are trapped in such cultural patterns are                                                                    
participants in collusions; games of addictive mutual self                           
deception.  Dishonesty with self and others  is  normal in 
such cultures;  there are conventional forms of dishonesty                                                                  
which    are  regarded  and  proper,   and  are   properly                                 
rewarded.  The educational systems of  such cultures teach                                    
what  forms of  dishonesty  are normal  and proper,    and                                                                  
what forms of dishonesty are abnormal and improper.     In                                                                  
the   latter category   of  dishonesty  fall  attempts  to                                                                  
point   to disintegrative aspects of the culture.   People                                                                   
who  seek  to  call attention to  cultural  disintegration                                                                   
caused   by  some forms of dishonesty are regarded as  out                                 
of  touch with some of  the  most important truths of  the                                                                     
culture,     and  extreme communal  pressure  is   brought                                                                
to bear   upon   them   to straighten  them out;    to get                                                                     
them to behave  properly  in terms of the cultural norms.                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     Addictions  &  Collusions ====  See the book Self and                                                
Other by R. D. Laing                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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