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This-essay is a7709164.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 ========================================================== %UNFILTERED EXPERIENCES 770916 The sophisticated person has few unfiltered experiences or perceptions. All is experienced /perceived through the cultural baggage which the person has acquired. The cultural baggage facilitates the perception of a more understandable and controllable world, making possible manipulative coping behavior which has survival value to those who benefit from the cultural heritage. Without the cultural heritage---coping behavior would not be as effective/efficient; but it is acquired at a price of loss of direct experiences of many essentially mysterious realities. Culture engages in the repression of mystery in exchange for the means to understanding and control. The possession of the means to understanding and control may appear to be conditional upon the continued and unexceptional filtration of experiences. There is likely to be fear that making an exception and permitting oneself unfiltered experiences may occasion the loss of understanding and control in a permanent way. Such fear transforms unfiltered experiences into frightening experiences which threaten to crack the egg-shell of the protective cultural world view. People who attempt to crack that egg-shell in order to hatch into a new life--- are perceived with terror and so are seen as terrible people. The defenders of the cultural heritage are bound to take steps to repress their mysterious/terrible behavior. Since egg crackers' behavior is not understandable from within the culture which they challenge, they tend to be excommunicated by members of the challenged culture. Such excommunications help members of the challenged culture to avoid unfiltered experiences; i.e., to maintain the culture's collusions about the ultimate nature of reality. Reality may be experienced only through the culture's filters, it being taboo to remove the filters. Repression of mystery is one of the functions/consequences of culture. The more understanding a creature has, the less mystery there is in its life. Technocrats believe that the most advanced creators are those to whom nothing is mysterious, because they perceive everything through dark filters even as they examine themselves in a mirror, face to face. (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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