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%MEDIATION MEDIA MEDIUM COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE TALK 060605
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     Each  culture uses various media-to-mediate  what  is
important  within each culture;  e.g.,  to set-priorities,
to-clarify   virtues-and-vices,   to  affirm-virtues,   to
denigrate-vices,   to  expose-collusions,   to  stabilize-
realities, to distribute power-and-wealth, etc.

     The  above  mediating-media  include,   but  are  not
limited to, the following:

     1.  Epic-stories,
     2.  Religious-Songs,
     3.  Parables,
     4.  Theology,
     5.  Novels,
     6.  Folk Songs,
     7.  Religious-Scriptures,
     8.  History-Books,
     9.  Science-Texts,
    10.  Professional-Reports,
    11.  Military-Manuals,
    12.  Military-Law,
    13.  Secular-Law,
    14.  Religious-Law,
    15.  Religious-Rituals,
    16.  Taboos,
    17.  Mandatory-Traditions,
    18.  Prescriptions-and-Proscriptions, etc.

     Conflicts  between-and-among humans  are  embodied-in
and  mediated-by  the  above mediating-media.   Novel-New-
media are often  invented to gain advantages in the course
of  such  conflicts;   to  embody  such  advantages,    to
concentrate  wealth-and-power;   and  to  over-throw  such
concentrations of wealth-and-power.

     Mediating-media can also play roles in clarifying the
tragically-disintegrative effects of  the Alienative-Uses-
and-Abuses  of  particular  mediating-media.    Of  course
powerful  experts  in the abuse of  particular  mediating-
media often object to the use of  competing/new mediating-
media --- to expose-and-subvert their favorite  mediating-
media.

     Mediating-Media  can become  and  be  the Message-of-
Liberation --- and be objected to  because of the Message-
of-Liberation  which  is  mediated.    How  then  can   we
distinguish  between  the Mediating-Media and the Various-
Messages which are Mediated-by the Mediating-Media?

     Some Mediating-Media are Best-Suited to  Messages-of-
Liberation;  and  other Mediating-Media are Best-Suited to
Messages-of-Domination.     A  Dominant-Media may be  The-
Message-of-Alienation.     A  Reconciling-Media may be  A-
Message-of-Healing-Integration.

     By  the  nature  of the following  "Media"   ---  the
messages which are embodied in and carried by them --- are
likely  to  be Messages of  Domination-and-Alienation  ---
especially when they are imposed unilaterally:

     1.  Prescriptions.
     2.  Proscriptions.
     3.  Taboos.
     4.  Demands.
     5.  Commands.
     6.  Collusions.
     7.  Polarizations.
     8.  Dichotomizations.
     9.  Denigrations.
    10.  Attacks.
    11.  Terrorizations.
    12.  Excommunications.

     Often   the  message  which  we  send  to  others  is
determined by the mediating-media within which we seek  to
formulate   our  message.    Message  of   Liberation-and-
Reconciliation  cannot  be Helpfully-Formulated  within  a
Mediating-Media which is  most often used  or abused as  a
Media for Control-and-Domination.

     When a Mediating-Medium has often been used/abused in
alienative  ways ---  at the best it will be difficult  to
Helpfully-Formulate  and   Communicate   any   Message-of-
Reconciliation  within  and/or via  that Mediating-Medium.
Beware   of  ignorance  about  such  difficulties!    Such
ignorance does not lead to bliss!

     Mediating-Media:

     Point-toward       that which is Important;

     Call-Attention to  that which is Important;

     Suggest            that which is Important;

     Reveal             that which is Important;

     Unmask             that which is Important;

     Clarify           that which is Important;

     DO-NOT-CONTAIN     that which is Important.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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