Taboo

A handy silence

This series it’s a reflection about how the family secrets and social taboos are born. A look at the phenomenon of taboo like a tool, a handy silence. Perhaps, we stop talking openly about something because it becomes uncomfortable for us, and then this becomes a secret over time. As time flows, the matter loses its visibility and it ceases to be part of anybody knowledge, disappearing from our consciousness to enter the sphere of an unthinkable subject.

It seems to me there is a process behind this. A question arises… the deliberate abandonment of speech and public expression of a given subject is it not a sign of immaturity?

Does the absence of dialogue, the conspiracy of silence, our silence, express our immaturity? Can only what is mature make something suitable for disclosure?

The reflection on taboos brings me to the thought that taboos do not represent any negative or positive aspect in our lives. Maybe it is only one of instruments in the process of becoming mature. A instrument that loses its usefulness when we attain wisdom. When you’re ready taboo stops be taboo.