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%SCIENTISTS' ALIENATION 850128
Why are scientists alienated from such a large
fraction of the general public? It would seem that they
are smart enough to take steps to overcome their
alienation. If they do not have the right kind of
"smarts" they are generally smart enough to develop the
right kind of "smarts". Yet they do not. They are not
alienated for lack of techniques, but because they do
not care whether or not they are alienated. Their
primary concerns do not include alienation as a matter of
great concern, so they do relatively little about their
alienation.
In ancient time learned men tried to understand the
motion of objects in terms of circular motion as the ideal
heavenly kind of motion. All non-circular motions were to
be understood in terms of circular motion as the best kind
of motion. That ideal turned out to be misleading. It
was not until Newton revolutionized the ideals and ideas
regarding motion that non-ideal motion could be
understood. When it was understood that non-accelerated
motion was the simplest kind of motion, the ideal kind of
motion, then accelerated motion could be understood as a
departure from that ideal.
Commonly idealists have regarded conformal human
behavior as the ideal kind of human behavior. They have
tried to understand, predict and control non-conformal
behavior as perverted departures from proper conformal
behavior. Conformal behavior has been called good or
ideal. Non-conformal behavior has been called bad or
evil. People have differed as to what behavioral ideals
should be the standard for conformity as the ideal form
of behavior to be copied by all good people. People who
have refused to conform have been called bad, evil, agents
of the devil and have been rejected as worthy of
alienation; i.e., not worthy of dialogue, fellowship,
communication or communal acceptance.
Scientists have a different set of ideals than do
most people who conform to their set of ideals as regards
behavior. They are alienated from (and properly so, they
think) people who do not accept their set of ideals.
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