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          %IMPORTANT TALK TABOO MESSAGES GENERALIZE 940716

     There  are  many  instances where it  is  helpful  to
derive particular conclusions from  general  statements of
integrative principles.   Often,   however,   people  draw
tragic conclusions leading to statements of principle from
particular behaviors  of dysfunctional people in positions
of power and leadership.

     Considering   how   often   talk  is   repressed   in
addictive/collusive   communities---it  is   natural   for
children and adults to draw the practical conclusions that
openness, honesty, and responsiveness are not important---
for  in practice they are  regularly  sacrificed upon  the
altar of showing respect to powerful dysfunctional people.
Those  conclusions  are rarely challenged  in  theoretical
discussions  of  what principles are the  foundations  for
personal  and  communal integrity.   Thus the  conclusions
become  operative  generalizations which lead people  into
tragic  patterns  of  attitudes,   thought,   assumptions,
reasoning, conclusions, emotions, and behaviors.

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