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%REBELLION COMMUNAL PERSONAL INTEGRITY CONFLICT LAW 970101

     In  a community  in  which  there  are  prescriptions
regarding  proper and improper emotional expressions it is
not prudent/possible to be open and honest about  personal
emotions.  Emotional honesty would undermine the collusive
games  of  mutual self deception which  hold  the  society
"together".   The social "order" would break down!

     Often   social   prescriptions  tell  members  of   a
community  when  and how it is "proper"  to  permit  their
emotions  to  be  expressed.   On other  occasions  it  is
"improper" to permit emotions to be expressed.

     When emotions are traditionally bound up and not free
to  express themselves  there are bound to be tensions and
contentions which  hide  just below  the surface of  daily
expressions.   Under those circumstances it is bound to be
difficult to properly regulate the expression of  emotions
in  proper  ritualistic  ways.   There  are  bound  to  be
rebellious  tendencies within the context  of  ritualistic
expressions which are in keeping with the prescriptions of
emotional expressions.   Such emotional "expressions"  are
bound   to  be  meaningless,   insignificant,    and   not
satisfactory.   People who are bound up in such  emotional
"expressions"  are bound to learn that expressing emotions
does not merit  respect---and so eventually contribute  to
the  pattern of prescriptions and proscriptions which will
continue to make emotional expressions unworthy of respect
or support.

     Whenever  any  condition  operates  to  augment   the
condition    itself    there   is   bound   to    be    an
exponential/geometric growth of the condition.    Thus the
communal  condition  which  inhibits the open  and  honest
expression  of  emotions  is bound to  lead  to  dishonest
expressions  of  emotions which do not  merit  respect  or
support---and  so to disrespect for emotional  expressions
and further inhibitions of open and honest expressions  of
emotions.

     For  the above reasons it is important for people  of
integrity  to help communities to work towards  liberating
members  of the community to be free to be  vulnerable  in
open  and  honest intimate relationships---and to  express
emotions  in  ways  which  will inform  the  community  of
conflicts  which need to be resolved in win-win ways which
will relieve tensions, contentions and bonds which inhibit
creative problem solving.

                         (c) 1997 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Integrity and Honesty"
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)

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