Somewhere along the way we became more than just our brother's keeper, but our brother's judge and executioner. Yet when we have erred, regardless of the outer consequences, we have become experts at self-imposed punishment. We are our own worst critics and often the creators of the most incredible internal dis-ease imaginable. It is not taught in school and it is the all too rare household that models this healthy exercise. We never reveal our dirty laundry in public.
Family secrets stay family secrets.
Skeleton remain in the closet. The result is the acting out of inner turmoil and violence upon a well-meaning, but constrictive society. One might imagine that early societies were communities. People knew each other. Those they did not know personally, they knew empirically.