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%SCIENTIFIC ESCAPE 770611
Real social situations tend to be complex and
frustrating, especially to emotionally immature people.
Real situations tend not to fulfill ideal expectations.
Thus idealists experience frustrations. Such frustrations
motivate many emotionally immature idealists to seek
escape into the world of ideal forms.
The world of ideal forms consists of generalizations
which ignore the imperfections characteristic of unique
realities. Only that which is common to many unique
realities is incorporated into the ideal forms. This is
true whether the ideal forms be of objects, or of other
realities; relationships, laws, processes, social
structures, etc. By ignoring what is unique to each
situation idealists find what is common to many similar
situations and make verbal/quantitative statements about
such common factors. That which is common is regarded as
the ideal form which is more real than the real unique
situations which served as the basis for formulating the
ideal form.
The world of ideal forms may be complex, but it is
orderly and predictable. Ambiguity, uncertainty,
imperfection, uniqueness, and similar traits are not
welcome in the world of ideal forms---a world ruled by
persons who do not know how to cope meaningfully with such
traits. By creating a world over which they may rule
unchallenged such persons find a form of security. While
they may have disagreements about political power in the
world of ideal forms, such disagreements are no where near
as threatening as the ambiguities, uncertainties,
imperfections, and unique situations of the politics of
allocating scarce resources in open, democratic,
accountable ways of the real world community.
In the modern world the scientific community is
dependent upon the world community for resources, support,
and sympathy. There is danger in support of the alienated
scientific community---for through the lack of meaningful
dialogue the implications of scientific discovery and
engineering applications are likely to by inhumane
implications. When scientists escape into the world of
ideal forms, they tend to withdraw from the world
community of humane personal relationships with non-
technically oriented people who do not value techniques
exclusively.
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