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     Rationalization is a collusive process  by which non-
logical,   non-rational  motivation is  obscured  and  the
behavior  occasioned by such motivation is made to  appear
as if it was motivated by logical, intellectual, analytic,
objective,  and other respectable considerations.   People
who  do  not respect  affection,   instincts,   intuition,
feelings,   desires,   and  emotions have great  need  for
rationalization.    They  are not free to acknowledge  and
affirm  the sources of their motivation and the nature  of
those  sources.   They must dress up their motivations  to
make them appear respectable.   They would be  embarrassed
to  have their motivations be seen naked,  so they  clothe
them  according  to  the fashions of their sub-culture  so
that they  will  be   regarded  as  respectable  citizens.
Rationalization  is  a technique to avoid  excommunication
from  an  intolerant  conformal   sub-culture.     Through
rationalization  primitive motivations are made to  appear
sophisticated and people lose touch with the real roots of
their behavior.

     Much of higher education is rationalization.   Higher
education shows little respect for affection,   instincts,
intuition,  feelings, desires, fear,  and other non formal
motivations.     Rather  than  respect  such   motivations
professors  tend to objectify and analyze them as part  of
their program of rational education.   Motivations are not
accepted and affirmed,  they are objectified and analyzed.
People  are separated from their motivations in order that
they  may  understand their  motivations  objectively  and
rationally.    In  this sense education is  an  alienative
process by which people become separated from their  roots
in order that they may examine their roots objectively and
analytically.  Such education in not integrative.  It does
not promote wholeness,  integrity, balance, love,  wisdom,
and  respect.    It  promotes  criticism,    faultfinding,
perfectionism,    alienation,    frustrations,    anxiety,
excommunication, etc.

     We need  to understand in non-rational ways why it is
that  we  are so intent upon giving rational  explanations
for all our behavior.   A  refusal to respect non-rational
motivations is probably part of a collusion.

                                                                                                                               
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