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    %TABOO THREAT REJECT BANISH EXCOMMUNICATE ALIEN 930215

     A taboo is a prohibition which is generally  enforced
by  threats  and actual:  rejections,  banishments,   dis-
fellowshipping,       excommunication,        alienations,
estrangements,   etc.  Taboos are enforced by manipulative
dishonest people who are willing to sacrifice personal and
communal  integrity upon  the alters of the idols of their
compulsive  concerns;   while  being dishonest  about  the
consequences of their actions and in-actions.

     Taboos  are ineffective tools of manipulation because
the victims of taboo manipulations are often depressed and
looking  for  the  excitement and stimulation  which  they
otherwise lack.   Given  their situation,  the  excitement
engendered by the  challenge  of secretly violating taboos
is   a  pleasant  prospect---in  spite  of  the  real  and
fantasized risks.  Taboo manipulators do  not know  of nor
understand the motivations which drive  and lead those who
are depressed by taboo manipulations.

     Taboos  often originate in reasonable concerns;   but
taboo  manipulations do not honestly address the concerns.
Taboo  manipulators are persons  of  addictive  attitudes,
perspectives,  beliefs and understandings.  They  approach
non-conformists  as challenges  to  their power to promote
conformity   through:    coercion,    threats,     control
technologies,  and violence. Where there is non-conformity
they believe  there is a need for  laws,  law enforcement,
legislation,    litigation,   lawyers,   courts,    jails,
rejection,   estrangement,   excommunication,  and capitol
punishment.   Because  they  are  not  honestly  reflexive
people,   they do not see that their technologies  do  not
live up to their  promises  and expectations. Technologies
of human control do not work.  Honesty regarding this fact
of life is essential to personal and communal integrity.

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