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Scribes copy and repeat words and ensymbolments, but
do not personally know the fullness of power to which the
words point. Scribes may play games skillfully with
words, yet know not what they do in reality. Scribes
stand by the authority of others, but know not where they
stand personally. They know not how to profess even if
they bear the title professor. Scribes are verbal
technocrats who seek to solve human problems via the
clever manipulation of words and disembodied ideas.
It is difficult to recognize a scribe and to.pass
fair judgment upon that which scribes do and do not do;
for in the attempt one is likely to become as the scribes
and so become unaware of the difference between scribes
and others who are real persons. In the process of
participation in the use of techniques to judge who is and
who isn't a scribe, one is likely to become the victim of
the presumption of knowledge of good and evil with all
that is implied therein.
The existence of the scribe is relatively devoid of
the mutual awareness of emotions of self and others.
Emotions do not yield readily to ensymbolment and much
less to techniques of manipulation through symbolic logic;
e.g., the precise manipulation of propositions stated in
words. Via collusion that which can not be manipulated is
defined not to be, and so is not part of the state of
consciousness of scribes.
The primary experiences of scribes come to be the
ensymbolments of former scribes rather than the personal
sensory experiences of particular inner and outer
realities and processes. In the scribes' efforts to deal
with finitude he seeks to transcend the particular via the
ensymbolments of the universals made real in the
particular. Through the success of rising above the
particular the scribe loses contact with the reality of
the universals made real in particulars which participate
in the essential finitude of humanity. Thus the
manipulations of scribes do not often point to the
relevant fundamentals which will be helpful to real people
with real problems.
The way out of the trap of the scribes is to develop
a mutual awareness of primary sensory experiences and
states of consciousness through authentic meeting.
(c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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