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%CHANGING STABILIZING REALITY 791119
Jack does not understand emotions in any meaningful
way because he lacks the contextual basis for
understanding emotions. Jill's emotions are an essential
and meaningful part of her life, because she grew up in a
family in which sharing emotions was an integral part of
the whole life of the family. Because Jack does not
understand emotions he is threatened by the display of
emotions. Emotions threaten the whole framework in terms
of which he understands all that he understands. He
presumes that he understands all that is worth
understanding. To confront him with non-understandable
emotions which are obviously central to life --- is to
reveal the inadequacies of his understanding. Jill is
strong enough in her adolescent understanding to buck the
tide of Jack's scientific collusions. Jill decides to
suppress her interest in science --- rather than to try to
buck the tide of Jack's collusions against the expression
of personal emotions in science class. Jill can not stand
to repress her emotions, so she no longer sees Jack.
Jack and other scientists are concerned that few
females become scientists. Thus Jack and his non-
emotional friends are devising objective ways of getting
more females to become scientists. They are making
objective studies of how frequently females do and do not
decide to become scientists, and are computing correlation
coefficients between all the objective measurements which
they easily think of --- relating to who becomes
scientifically orientated. They want to do the job
properly, so they are taking care not to trust any
subjective impressions based upon emotional conjectures.
Speculations must first be validated by quantitative
studies before they must be taken seriously. They talk to
the females who have become scientists who are respected
by males. They do not talk to Jill who does not want to
talk to scientists because she is not up to challenging
their collusions---besides she is too young and has not
been trained to think objectively in any reliable way.
Her feelings are not important enough to take into account
in such an important matter. Besides, she is highly
critical of scientists.
The scientist who attempts to meaningfully understand
the universe in exclusively objective terms --- is doomed
to embarrassment. His program of objective analysis
excludes focusing upon students who are enlivened by the
powers to perceive process trends, have desires,
experience enjoyment and disappointment, make decisions;
and care about other persons' desires, joys,
disappointments, decisions, and cares. The scientist
presumes such personal traits will be the logical
consequence of impersonal presuppositions about the nature
of the elementary constituents of the universe.
The scientist assumes that reality is what it is ---
independently of the way the scientist approaches reality.
Other people are part of reality. Thus the scientist
assumes that other people are what they are independently
of how they are approached; e.g., that their behavior will
no depend upon whether they are approached as an inanimate
object, or with tastefully assertive expressions of desire
for sexual union. The scientist finds his own body to
part of the objective reality. Handling his own body
brings embarrassment because doing so exposes the
inadequacies of his scientific presuppositions. If he can
not understand his own body which is closest to him
objectively, how can he hope to understand the whole
universe as a collection of impersonal objects interacting
with each other on a local basis?
To avoid objective embarrassment the scientist avoids
situations which are likely to confront him with
expressions which can not be analyzed meaningfully on the
basis of his basic presuppositions. This means minimizing
personal relationships and intimacies, especially sexual
relationships. Just as religious orders have avoided
sexual distractions through sexual segregation, so
scientists have avoided the embarrassments of sexual
relationships through sexual segregation. By keeping
attractive females out of their profession they have
simplified their task of treating the universe as a set of
interacting impersonal elements which can be understood in
exclusively objective terms.
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