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%ALIENATIVE COMPETENCY 771207
Great competency in the absence of human sensitivity
can be the occasion for alienation---even if the
competency is meaningfully in the service of the general
welfare. The insensitive expert can not meaningfully
respond to other's response to expertise, even though the
expertise is serving meaningfully the general welfare. The
alienation is occasioned by the lack of dialogue between
the expert and the non-expert. The lack of dialogue is
occasioned by the insensitivity of the expert to the
affective responses of the non-expert when confronted by
the technical expertise and associated behavior pattern of
the expert.
Non-experts tend to be put off by the certainty and
invulnerability of experts. The following suggest other
aspects of experts which occasion aversion affective
reactions on the part of non-experts: Absence of
ambiguity, airs of superiority, arrogance, hypocrisy, lack
of humility, inflexibility, programmed systematic
behaviors, narrow interests, tenacity, and self-
discipline. Many of the traits which experts consider as
virtues---are viewed with apprehension by non-experts. If
the expert does not respond with understanding to the at
apprehension---the non-expert becomes even more
apprehensive and self-defensive; and the alienative
process intensifies. The expert may seek higher levels of
competency in a self-defensive response to the self-
defensive technical affective responses of the non-
experts. The non-experts in self-defense are likely to
dis-affirm the expertise and interests of the experts---
and engage in further affective self-defense mechanisms
which block affective non-communications of the technical
experts.
These considerations are important in any interaction
between experts and non-experts. They become critical
when the interactions pertain to the technical aspects of
education, community planning, and other political
processes. Tragic consequences occur when great political
power is yielded to experts who are characterized by
alienative competency.
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