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%SPECIALISTS 760715
Specialists share in common a preoccupation with
techniques. Specialists differ from each other a little
due to differences in the kinds of questions and problems
which are the foci of their attention. Different kinds
of specialists differ from each other only a little due to
their transcendent concern with technique. Thus, the
specialist who analyzes human problems is very much like
the specialist who analyzes mechanical and electrical
systems. Professional. specialization includes a
socialization process which directs attention away from
personal involvement in intimate personal relationships in
a subjective way, and towards impersonal observation,
analysis, and manipulation of things, people and groups in
an objective way. The specialist is trained to maintain
professional distance from the.objects of attention.
Subjective involvement is unprofessional according to the
traditional view. It would undermine the effectiveness of
the specialist.
Specialists who have differing foci of attention will
not transcend specialization by learning how to direct
their attention to new foci while maintaining their
preoccupation with techniques. Liberation from their
narrowness of perception will not come by the development
of new technical skills in new areas of specialization.
The person who specializes in a large number of areas does
not thereby cease to be a specialist. To transcend
specialization requires the transcendence of the
preoccupation with techniques which characterizes
specialization. This transcendence may best be
facilitated by whole persons who are not preoccupied with
techniques, even though competent in some useful
techniques. They have the wisdom to use techniques only
where they are appropriate, and to avoid the use of any
technique in situations in which the use of any technique
will cause suffering. By example such persons can help
technocrats to transcend technocracy, provided the desire
is already there to transcend technocracy.
Specialists get in trouble primarily because of the
exclusive nature of their interests and concerns. Their
interests and concerns exclude others which are essential
to being a whole person. It is not the nature of the
interests and concerns which is destructive. It is the
tendency towards exclusiveness which is destructive.
Specialization is inherently an exclusive process.
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