“Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo.”
“At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.”
“The invasion of technique desacralizes the world in which man is called upon to live. For technique nothing is sacred, there is no mystery, no taboo.”
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
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Un tabú es la prohibición, veto o evitación por parte de un grupo social de algo basado en la percepción del grupo de que es excesivamente repulsivo, ofensivo, sagrado o permitido solo para ciertas personas. Tales prohibiciones están presentes en prácticamente todas las sociedades. Los tabúes pueden ser prohibidos explícitamente, por ejemplo dentro de un sistema legal o una religión, o implícitamente, por ejemplo por normas o convenciones sociales seguidas por una cultura u organización particular.
Not who you're looking for? Others named taboo: British television drama series · 1989 word guessing party game · American rapper (born 1975) · monograph based on a series of lectures by Franz Steiner
