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                         %EQUAL INTIMACY ALL PEOPLE 950725

     The  only  way a person can be equally intimate  with
all  other people in the world is to be totally  alienated
from   all  other  people;   i.e.,   dead  in  all   ways:
spiritually,  psychologically,  emotionally, economically,
politically, personally, etc.

     Attempts   to  control  the  intimate   relationships
between people engender alienation---even if the  attempts
are  motivated  by the purest of intentions  and  desires.
Such attempts to control do not engender improved intimate
relationships.

     When  people  are not empowered and  free  to  manage
their own lives  and  intimate relationships---they become
alienated  and  disintegrate  along  with  the  alienative
community  which through its lack of integrity  engendered
their disintegration.

     People  need  to  be  free to witness  to  their  own
experiences---without pressure being brought to  bear upon
them  to  pretend that they have not had  the  experiences
which they have had; and without pressure being brought to
bear  upon them to pretend that they have had  experiences
which  they  have not had.   Pressure to be  dishonest  is
disintegrative  and not in the best interest of anybody or
any community.

     When  some  person  or persons has the power  to  use
information about people's intimate relationships
to bring pressure upon people to conform to some person or
persons' expectations;  then open and honest discussion of
intimate   relationships  is  inhibited.    Thus   it   is
disintegrative  to  empower any person or persons  to  use
information about people's intimate relationships
to bring pressure upon people to conform to expectations.

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