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%PRIMARY SECONDARY MOTIVATION+790429
%SOURCES OF AUTHORITY CHILD+790429
%NEEDS APPROVAL ACCEPT LOVE 790429
The sources of the authority which we honor by our
behaviors are to be found in our childhood emotional
experiences. In our childhood our primary motivations are
molded so as to be expressed through the logic of
secondary motivations. Often we learn to suppress our
awareness of our primary motivations, and to respect and
honor secondary motivations in an idolatrous way, as if
they were primary, God given. We learn to ignore our God
given desires, feelings, instincts, intuitions, emotions,
and needs (which are primary) and to treat the calculus of
the logic of secondary motivations as the essential
technology of salvation.
When we were infants we were totally dependent upon
those who parented us. We needed their approval,
acceptance, love, affection, affirmations, encouragement,
etc. Because of their limitations they were unable to
give unconditionally, and so they met our needs
conditionally. We learned to internalize their conditions
as being more important than our identity, needs,
perceptions, responses. We learned to absolutize the
early conditions placed upon winning fulfillment of our
needs. As children those conditions became sources of
authority with greater power and less love than our God
given desires, feelings, instincts, intuitions, emotions,
and needs. We learned the calculus of the logic of
authority and institutions, and became successful in terms
of the technocratic sophistication of that calculus.
When we repress our primary motivations the logic of
authority and institutions becomes demonic; dehumanizing
subjects into objects that do not have human desires,
feelings, instincts, intuitions, emotions and needs. Such
objective "persons" are much easier to manage than are
real persons. The behavior of objective "persons" is
predictable according to the studies of social scientists
who make objective observations and analytic models of
human behavior. Such successful models are taken to be
the proof that the choice of models was correct; ignoring
the self-serving character and self-defeating prophecy
implicit in the choice.
Cognitive analysis often obscures the non-cognitive
nature of how we come to be dominated by our sources of
authority. Such cognitive analysis is thus often biased
in favor of exclusively cognitive analysis. We need to
become aware of our genuine primary needs as
motivations---in order to be born again.
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