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%MYSTIFICATION 770426
Elitist professionals use mystification to help
maintain the elite character of their profession.
Unnecessarily they adopt obscure language and symbolism to
make it possible for only the most able to qualify for
entry into the profession. Via collusions, the
professionals become unable to distinguish between
essential language specialization, and language
specialization which merely serves to mystify, rather than
to facilitate, communication and clear thinking.
Mystification sometimes involves merely failing to
clarify relationships beyond the confusion regarding them
when they were first discovered. By keeping relationships
in a state of confusion it is possible to keep only the
most able students as the new initiates into the
profession. The less creative students may be unable to
rediscover for themselves the full scope of the meaning of
the awkwardly represented relationships. Thus
professionals sometimes resist reducing their discoveries
to routines which only moderately able people can cope
with. They feel that to do so would be very
unprofessional; i.e., open the profession up to far more
people and destroy the elite character of the profession.
The motivation for mystification may be the desire of
elite professionals to gain a sense of satisfaction and
meaning out of being "special", by being among the few who
understand obscure truths and have unusual skills. This is
especially true if they lack emotional maturity and are
not present within an affective community which can affirm
their whole personhood with individual and communal
integrity. Lacking affective affirmation, the
professionals may seek elitist professional affirmations
as a source of meaning. To succeed in achieving their goal
of professional affirmation, they may have to participate
in traditional rituals of mystification. They may find it
difficult to gain entrance into the profession if they
"drag their heels" about participating in traditional
rituals of mystification. Professionals fear the entry
into their profession of individuals who seem intent upon
undermining the basis of the elitism which is the source
of the professionals' substitute for affective
affirmation. Thus mystification cannot be overcome by
frontal attacks. Providing for affective affirmations is
likely to be far more helpful.
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