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                            %ALIENATION VIA CAUTION 860520

     Alienation  can  be the result of  excessive  caution
occasioned   by   the  promotion  of  fear   of   intimate
involvement.    If  intimacy is forbidden  in  vague  ways
according  to  informal and tacit rules,  then people  may
fear to be open and honest in dialogue, and be cautious in
ways that lead to alienation and to the disintegration  of
the community which forbade indiscreet intimacy.

     Rules  that  try to control some behavior with little
regard for  the significance of and motivation toward  the
behavior, can undermine the possibility of people engaging
in meaningful  intimate behavior---limiting people instead
to  traditional  formal  patterns of overt behavior  which
conform  to  approved scripts,  but which do  not  fulfill
human desires or possibilities.   Creativity is stifled by
efforts to  control human behavior without regard  to  its
significance  or motivations.    Literal behaviorists thus
can not promote creativity.

     Confusion   regarding   rules  of  acceptability  and
excommunication helps to promote caution  and  conformity.
In  the face of confusion it is easy to assume guilt,  and
hard  to defend against prejudicial judgments.   If  rules
are  clear and explicit it is easy to argue  against  them
and to  prove  innocence.   People  who  want  to  promote
conformity  thus  choose  not  to  be  clear  about  rules
pertaining  to acceptability  and  excommunication.   Such
lack  of clarity helps  to promote caution and alienation,
making  it  easier to control people in keeping  with  the
ideals of conformal leaders.

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