This-essay is a7711111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EMOTIONAL INVESTMENTS 771111 In any stage of our life each of us has a finite capacity for emotional involvement. Where we invest our capacity for emotional involvement will determine our future interest, and so our capacity for future emotional involvement. Just as for financial investments, it is quite risky to make all of our emotional investments in just a few bonds, especially if they bear small emotional returns. If all our emotional investments are in objective and analytic activities---we develop a portfolio of analytic and objective bonds which bear little emotional interest. We tend to grow emotionally impoverished--unable to make further emotional investments, and so permanently bonded to our analytic and objective foci. Emotional investments made exclusively in objective and analytic activities thus tend to imprison us--in that our future options become limited by the little interest drawn from them for investment in non- objective and non-analytic activities. An exclusive portfolio of investments also tends to make us vulnerable to changing conditions around us--we are likely to lack flexibility and break under the strain of changing conditions. Objectivity and analysis tend to be retrospective--- and so occasion conservative TENDENCIES when carried over into human relationships. Conservatism in human relationships tends to undermine emotional richness within such relationships. This is one of the reasons for the little emotional interest born by objective and analytic activities. Exclusively within such activities tends to inhibit subjectivity and holistic perceptions--- again undermining emotional richness. For these and other similar reasons specialization in the technical aspects of any discipline tends to involve a draining of emotional resources and capacities, leaving the specialist in a poor position to relate meaningfully to other persons in non technical ways. This makes it very difficult to receive meaningful inspiration and guidance regarding purposes which technology might helpfully serve. As a result specialists tend to become wrapped up in applications of technology which are emotionally most fulfilling to technicians--regardless of their consequences to people as a whole. Where emotional investments are made thus directs the evolution of human history. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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