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%PARALLEL MOTIVATION REBELLION 810112
It is relatively easy to rebel against an opposing
motivation, and relatively easy to follow another
motivation when the two are orthogonal. It is much
trickier to rebel, or with integrity follow, one of two
motivations---when the two motivations pertain to doing
the same overt act. In such cases the perceived human
meaning may not so much be in the action itself, as in the
motivation for the act. How then is it possible to affirm
one motivation for the act while not affirming the
alternative motivation for the act: One motivation may be
healthy, while the alternative motivation is unhealthy.
To refuse to act because of the unhealthy motivation's
existence, will result in a denial of the healthy
motivation, and vice versa. How is the act, or the
failure to perform the act, to be perceived and understood
by self and others? What human meaning is to be
associated with the conflict and its manner of resolution?
The exclusively objectively oriented person will
denigrate consideration of motivations and urge that
attention be focused exclusively upon the objective act.
To such a person there is no problem. The issue of
rebelling against a motivation can not exist in a
meaningful way. Subjective awareness of the issue is of
no significance to the exclusively objective person.
Significance can be given only to overt behavior, or to
physiological responses which can be objectively verified
with scientific instruments.
In instances of parallel motivation it is difficult
for a person to know with any confidence which motivation
is the prevailing motivation, and so it is even more
difficult to seek to vest the act with clear meaning which
originates in the motivation. Such difficulty is
especially great as regards the perception of other people
and the meanings which they attribute to acts.
Parallel motivations often originate in cognitive vs
emotional, utilitarian vs affective, systematic vs
spontaneous, intellectual vs instinctive sources.
Conflicts between dichotomous sources are often implicit
in parallel motivations, and how we respond to such
conflicts can be of great consequence.
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