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%SCIENTISTS' TRAGIC IDEALS 840306
Scientists teach total respect for behavior which is
objective, rational, and oriented to achieving
chosen goals expressible in formal language according
to systematic procedures. Other types of behavior
are regarded as unworthy of respect, and sometimes as
scandalous or taboo. Ideals other than their own are not
integrated into the collective consciousness of the
scientific community; Instead, ideals and behavior
expressive of such non-scientific ideals tend to be
segregated and viewed objectively from afar---as an
object for scientific study and dispassionate
understanding, manipulation. Formal reports of the
achievement of such studies and control through
formal understanding bring formal encouragement for
more of the same in a self-referential feed-back-loop
which is not objective, not rational and not planned
to achieved the natural alienative consequence of the
operation of the feed-back-loop.
It is tragic and ironic that scientists compulsive
and thoughtless commitment to their professional ideals
leads to the creation of a feed-back-loop which violates
the very ideals which created the feed-back-loop. Both
the feed-back-loop itself and its natural consequences
violate the spirit of the commitments which bring it into
being. Yet that set of commitments which brought the
feed-back-loop into existence can make it impossible for
the scientists to perceive the natural consequences of
their commitments. This is the essence of Greek
Dramatic Tragedy which the scientists seek to transcend.
They tend to believe that the Greeks experienced tragedy
for lack of adequate scientific insights and scientific
technologies. They are tragically blind to the
tragedies which they create through their
professional commitments to alienative ideals.
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