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I was once astonished to see a Yequana take it into his head to climb to the top of the hill overlooking the village to pound a drum and shout at the top of his lungs for a good half-hour before his impulse was satisfied. He felt like doing it for reasons of his own and did it without any apparent concern for what the neighbours would think, though it was not a 'done thing'. My own surprise was because I had never questioned my society's unwritten law that sane members of the community inhibit their odd or 'irrational' impulses in order to avoid being feared or mistrusted.
As a corollary of this rule in our culture, the most celebrated, accepted persons among us - him stars, pop stars, figures like Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Gandhi - have a licence to dress and behave in far less conforming ways than they could have permitted themselves before they became well enough known to be above suspicion. Even the tragic aberrations of a Judy Garland were somehow not as frightening to the public as the same sort of behaviour would have been in a neighbour, for she was a celebrity, approved by millions of others, so there was no fear in accepting whatever she did. One did not have to rely upon one's own doubtful ability to judge and accept.
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It is perhaps also an expression of their fulfilled personalities that they feel so little need to make judgements upon one another and can so easily accept individual differences. It is observable among us as well that the more frustrated, the more alienated, people are, the more they feel they must judge and distinguish between others as acceptable or unacceptable either on a personal basis or in groups, as in religious, political, national, racial, sexual or even age conflict. Self-hate, resulting from not having been given the sense of one's own rightness in infancy, is, of course, a major basis for irrational hatred of others.
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A few more pages I copied here:
http://paimei01.blogspot.com/2010/08/co ... ncept.html
http://paimei01.blogspot.com/2010/08/books.html
