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      %REASONABLE COMMUNAL SOCIAL LOGICAL ATTITUDES 880508

     Each community creates its own distinctive conception
of  what  is reasonable and logical.   Daily life  defines
what   is  regarded  as  reasonable  in  each   community.
Behavior     which    is    generally    accepted,      is
reasonable.  Behavior which occasions alienation,  is  not
reasonable.

     Communal  attitudes  flow from patterns  of  communal
acceptance and rejection.  Attitudes are habitual patterns
of thought and feeling.   Attitudes are formed by patterns
of acceptance and rejection.   Each member of a  community
seeks  to  be a member of the unity,  and  where  possible
molds   behavior  to  promote unity.    Where  there   are
clear patterns  of  rejection,    behavior  is  molded  to
avoid  rejection.     If  the  habit  of  rejecting   non-
conformal  behavior  is not transcended,   conflicts  will
exist   over  what  should be the reasonable  grounds  for
rejection.

     Patterns of mutual rejection develop in a dynamic way
which  is  not under the control of any one  member  of  a
community.  The logic of such patterns of mutual rejection
is  not  under  the  control  of any  one  member  of  the
community,   it  is a communal logic which makes sense  in
terms   of  the  communal patterns  of  mutual  rejection.
Such   patterns seem reasonable to their  participants  in
terms  of  the   experience of the  participants.     They
behave  as they do to avoid rejection,  and by behaving as
they do,  they lay the   foundations   for  future   human
rejections    and  alienation.     Their  attitudes    are
disintegrative,  rather than integrative in nature.

     The communal attitudes of members of a disintegrative
community  infect  the  dynamics  of  individual  personal
development.   The  logic of the community which  pervades
the    patterns    of    inter-personal   acceptance   and
rejection,  is bound  to  abide within each participant in
the   communal  patterns   of  acceptance  and  rejection.
That pattern  is bound  to guide patterns of communication
and   alienation  within the dynamics of each   individual
person's development and growth.

     People  who  have been taught by their  community  to
accept  certain  patterns of acceptance and  rejection  as
being  reasonable,    will  follow   those   patterns   in
matters  of self acceptance  and  rejection.  What is good
for  the  community  will  naturally  seem  good  to   the
individual.      Attitudes   which   lead   to    communal
integration    or  communal  disintegration,   will   also
operate   within   individuals  and  lead  to   individual
integration  or disintegration.

     The  community  or  individual  which  habitually  is
guided   by   the attitude   that it  is   reasonable   to
reject   persons   who  fail to conform  to  a  prescribed
pattern   of  behavior,    will  logically   disintegrate,
according   to  the  rules  of  rejection  and  alienation
which  prevail   in   the  community.     The  process  of
disintegration  will follow the rules  embodied   in   the
communal  habits   of  thought  and  feeling;     in   the
communal  attitudes.    The  patterns   of  disintegration
and  violence  will follow the logic of  the  patterns  of
mutual rejection.

     To    transcend  patterns  of  disintegration   which
violate   the  integrity of a community and  its  members,
new  attitudes     towards     rejection,       alienation
and excommunication must prevail.   A new recognition must
dawn  that rejection,   alienation and excommunication are
tools  of   disintegration   which  do  violence  to   all
members  of   communities  which use  them,    and  so  do
violence  to  all persons who use   them.    Personal  and
communal  integrity are interdependent.   Any  tool  which
does  violence to communal  integrity  does  violence   to
personal  integrity.     The essence of violence   is  the
violation  of  an  integrity.    It is  impossible  to  do
violence   to  either  personal  integrity   or   communal
integrity without doing violence to the other.

     Those communities which  develop  attitudes that in a
creative  way minimize  violence  to  its  most  essential
integrities,    are   the  communities   which    survive.
Those  communities  which  respect  attitudes  which  lead
to   the  violation   of its most  essential  channels  of
communication,  are communities which   disintegrate,   as
their channels of communication disintegrate.  Channels of
communication   are  the   glue  which  hold   communities
together.     Without   open  channels  of  communication,
communities disintegrate.  To do violence  to  channels of
communication is to violate  the essence of community.

     Each family,  neighborhood, school,  business,  town,
city,  county, state, nation, profession, etc.  is in some
sense  a  community.    To survive,  each  such  community
needs   to   develop   attitudes  and patterns  of  mutual
acceptance  which promote  open and honest  communication.
Each community needs to be  aware  of  the  disintegration
which  logically  follows  the  acceptance  of  rejection,
alienation and excommunication as  appropriate behavior in
any circumstance.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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