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%INHIBITION OF RESEARCH 770921
Most scientists and scholars in scientific fields
would resent and rebel against overt inhibitions which
prevented them from carrying out their research in chosen
areas of study. They would make appeals to academic
freedom, freedoms of communication, and the value of the
search for truth. They would evidence a conviction that
nothing should stand in the way of pure research--unless
the activities involved in the pure research directly
threatened the safety of citizens.
Such scientists and scholars are often the victims of
collusions, emotional immaturity, communication blockages,
muscle-bound specialization, etc.---which inhibit
meaningful research far more terribly than any form of
overt inhibition they know of. Many times the technical
and resource-limitation problems are secondary inhibitions
in comparison to the non-technical and affective
inhibitions which are not recognized as being operative.
The research machine may not be making progress because it
is tethered to a fixed position by non-technical
inhibitors---as a car might be tied to a gigantic stake in
the ground by a very strong cable. In such situations
more power will not promote progress; it will promote
going in circles in more complex machines. Progress will
be promoted by transcending the inhibitions of collusions,
emotional immaturity, communication blockages, muscle-
bound specialization, etc. Special interest groups will
oppose such transcendence, as will internalized
perspectives' representatives of those interest groups--
making transcendence an emotionally demanding process,
which most people would prefer not to experience.
Because scholarship and scientific research are
directed by affective/subjective considerations---they
should be evaluated in non-technical terms; rather than
in exclusively technical terms. Wise decisions can not be
made in terms of exclusively technical considerations.
Few people in power in a technocratic society are fully
aware of this fact.
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