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   %COLLUSIVE COHERENT COMMUNAL LIE DISHONEST TRUTH 880904

     Participants  in  collusions  must hang  together  to
maintain   the  collusion  which  promises  to  them   the
advantages of a coherent conception of reality.  They will
enjoy the advantages of the collusion only as long as  all
live participants cooperate in maintaining the collusion's
coherent conception of reality.   Each participant has the
responsibility to help maintain  the collusion's coherence
as they hang themselves together.

     Participants   in   collusions   have   an   ultimate
responsibility to  maintain convergent thinking.  Creative
divergent thinking is not to be  permitted  or encouraged.
Divergent thinking might result  in  the breakdown of  the
dishonest story line which is central to the  coherence of
the collusion.    It  is essential to the coherence of the
collusion to always operate in terms of its chosen central
"truths".   Any failure  to honor those "truths"  must  be
dealt with promptly and severely.   Creativity which fails
to   honor  those  truths  must  not  be  honored.    Such
creativity must be regarded as insanity; a  departure from
the objective nature of reality upon which all intelligent
people must agree.  People who do not agree about with the
objective nature of reality must be stupid or insane,  and
worthy  of  dismissal from the community  of   respectable
participants in the intellectual community.

     Honor  and  respect  is  to be  offered  only   those
creative people who carefully work within the "truths"  of
the collusion and  who  build  up  the coherent structure.
They are to be admired because they maintain the collusion
and bring honor to it.  Participants in the collusion know
how  difficult it is to maintain  coherence when all  have
given up the notion of always being open and honest.  Upon
entering into the collusion all found it necessary to give
up  the  naive notions of truth and honesty,  and to  take
upon  themselves  the burden of artificially  constructing
and maintaining the coherence of the collusion in spite of
the strains   and stresses imposed by contrary evidence of
personal experience.   The  most respected participants in
the collusion are those who do the best job of maintaining
the central "truths" of the collusion in spite of the real
truths of everyday experience.

     It  is  difficult for participants in  collusions  to
maintain  the  appearance of coherence when they  have  in
practice given up the  natural  foundation of personal and
communal  integrity,   an  ultimate respect  for  open and
honest dialogue.   Having accepted the advantages of white
lies  and  misleading behavior  colluders are in a trap of
their  own  making.  To  maintain the advantages they must
support  each  other  in doing violence to the  truths  of
everyday experience.   To  maintain  their  collusion they
must daily  work  to generate  an   artificial   coherence
without the advantages of open and honest dialogue.  It is
a  difficult task which carries with it much  anxiety  and
concern.  One can never know when the artificial structure
may  fall  apart.   One must always be working to hold  it
together  with additional creative work which will  affirm
the  underlying "truths"  of the system.   Leaders in  the
enterprise cannot rest.  They must always venture forth to
prove the value of their enterprise.

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