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%TRAINING IN OBJECTIVE DISCIPLINE 831122
Some of the academic disciplines aspire to a lack of
bias by an ultimate dedication to the discipline of being
objective.
To be disciplined is to behave according to a pattern
of behavior which transcends individual instincts,
desires, fears, dispositions, etc. Objective behavior is
behavior which is consensual; oriented toward convergent
thinking, rather than towards eliciting idiosyncratic
divergent perceptions generated in the imagination and
fantasy of unique individuals. Thus an objective
discipline is one which promotes consensual orientation
towards what others can sense with communally convergent
senses. The objective disciplines discourage focusing
attention upon self-referential private insights and
motivations.
To be objective is to avoid involvement in self-
referential behavior which might undermine the disciplined
approach to the topic under consideration. Self-
referential behavior includes indirect self-reference. If
Jack loves Jill, then Jack is involved in indirect self-
referential behavior when he makes reference to or becomes
referred to Jill. By extension self-referential behavior
includes all behavior which naturally leads to such
obviously indirect self-referential behavior; e.g., all
sexual behavior is indirectly self-referential in nature.
It follows that to be objective involves avoidance of
sexual behavior.
Disciplined training in an objective discipline
strives towards uniformly objective behavior on the part
of both teachers and students. Objectivity cannot be
maintained if students and teachers become intimately
involved with each other as persons. Part of the
discipline of learning an objective discipline is
therefore to avoid personal intimacy or any behavior which
might possible lead to personal intimacy. By extension,
teachers and students must demonstrate their discipline by
treating each other objectively and by avoiding any
awareness of each other as sexual creatures.
To be objective in training in objective disciplines
the teachers and students must blind themselves to the
objective fact that they are sexual creatures with
possibilities for intimate personal relationships. To
open their eyes to that fact would rip the mask of
objectivity off their personal behavior.
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