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%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)  
                                                                                                                               
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