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This-essay is a7704261.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS 770426 When technocrats forbid certain kinds of human relationships they transform the images of the nature of those relationships so that the people who seek to fulfill the creative potentials of such relationships become trapped in those destructive aspects of the relationships which justified the technocrats' prohibition. The prohibition transforms people's expectations. The focus of attention moves from humane possibilities which might be affirmed, to the feared aspects of experimentation in fulfilling human potentials --- with the vulnerability, ambiguity, uncertainty, risks, failures, and suffering entailed in real living. By fixating attention on the risks, technocrats divert attention from the creative possibilities. Certain types of human relationships become stereotyped as to their potentials and consequences. The stereotyping does not respect the full range of helpful possibilities within various relationships. The lack of respect originates in the fear of immature people who stereotype the relationships and so undermine emotional growth and maturity on the part of the next generation. Far more helpful than forbidding particular kinds of human relationships because of the risks involved, is to give support to persons willing to experiment in developing the humane potentials of new kinds of human relationships --- with the vulnerability, ambiguity, uncertainty, risks, failures, and suffering entailed in them. There are long traditions of supporting adventurers who are willing to risk much in geographic travels, in literary experimentation, in musical innovation, in scientific research, etc. Why should there not develop a tradition of offering support to adventurers who are willing to risk their lives in experimenting with new kinds of humane relationships? Such relationships will of necessity range outside the bounds of traditional propriety and social conventions --- otherwise they would not be new. Of course the adventurers should not be forced into adventures any more than any other kind of adventurer should be forced to embark on an unchosen journey. Mutuality and balance within novel human relationships should be a prerequisite to supporting them. By avoiding the stereotyping of relationships, some adventurers may find novel new ways to solve social problems and dilemmas in non-technical ways. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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