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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9007051.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %CHANGE MAJORITY MINORITY SHAME GUILT POWER COLLUDE 900705 In times of change during a revolution one of the many things which does change is the power of majorities and minorities to define and impose upon others the generally acknowledged rules of shame and guilt which have power with regards to collusions, addictions, codependence, taboos, morality, ethics, propriety, conventions, traditions, etc. Acknowledgement does not mean respect; nor does it mean acceptance and concurrence. Acknowledgement indicates deference to power exercised by a majority by virtue of being in the majority, or deference to power exercised by a minority by virtue of some source of power which they are recognized as effectively exercising. Acknowledgement may entail resentment, anger, and a desire to reverse the balance of power which is acknowledged. Those who acknowledge the rules of shame and guilt then having power, are still under the power of those rules of shame and guilt; in spite of a lack of acceptance and a lack of concurrence. The revolution has not changed the rules of shame and guilt if such rules are still acknowledged and still operate to produce disintegrative shame and guilt. A true integrative revolution can change the rules of shame and guilt, and does so when such rules no longer are commonly acknowledged and no longer commonly operate to produce disintegrative shame and guilt. When such change has occurred those who have been shamed and guilted by such rules in the past, are set free to see honestly and to publicly talk about how they were shamed and guilted in ways which threatened their own integrity, and the integrity of their community. The rules of collusions, addiction and codependency tend to generate disintegrative shame and guilt which the victims cannot see clearly, cannot recognize as disintegrative, and cannot talk about publicly. A true revolution lifts the blinders which hide the disintegrative aspects of how such rules exercise corruptive power because they exercise power without any integrative checks and balances. Such rules are rarely checked to see if their consequences are disintegrative and they are rarely balanced with complementary exercise of power, to prevent corruption through unbalanced power. A true revolution seeks to liberate people with the truth about themselves, so that they can be true to themselves with integrative respect for each other. A true revolution changes the balance of power between majorities and minorities where and when power is being exercised in disintegrative ways. A true revolution does not empower dishonesty, deception and misleading leaders as tools for disintegrative change, according to some unrealistic preconception about how things should be. A true revolution does not shame and guilt people who are being true to themselves with integrative respect for each other. In a true revolution participants in the revolution, and those who have previously abused power in passive and active ways, become free to talk freely about their own experiences, feelings, perceptions, desires, fears, hopes and aspirations. A true revolution facilitates openness and honesty by working to generate fail-safe contexts in which people can be truly creative and enjoy the fruits of honest labor. In such a context when people engage in misleading behavior and labor, they are confronted in ways which promote both personal and communal integrity. The essence of a true revolution is a dedication to helping people to be free to be true to themselves with due respect for each other's personal and communal integrity. The changes in the balance of power between majorities and minorities are brought about by a true revolution to promote such liberation and freedom. True revolutions may occur in the behaviors of families of origin, families nurturing infants, schools, colleges, churches, religious institutions, corporations, political parties, states, nations and multinational organizations. The manifestations of a true revolution vary in detail depending upon the context in which it evolves; yet many of these considerations pertain regardless of the particular context in which people learn to Speak their Truths to Power in ways which promote both personal and communal integrity within their contexts. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================