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                                %REFLEXIVE PROBLEMS 860425

     Some  people  seem to have more   reflexive  dilemmas
than  do  other  people.    To  some  people---openly  and
honestly dealing  with  self-referential  difficulties  is
easy  and  natural.   They enter into and  develop  mature
interpersonal  relationships naturally and easily.    They
feel  comfortable  entering  into  intimate  relationships
which entail mutual vulnerability and respect.   They feel
free  to  talk  about themselves and share  themselves  in
intimate dialogue.

     It is not so with all people.   There are people  who
find  it  very  difficult to deal with reflexive dilemmas.
Any dilemmas with entail  self-referential  considerations
are  dilemmas which entail difficulties which they can not
understand  or deal with creatively.   Yet often they  are
experts  in  dealing  with technical problems which do not
entail reflexive considerations.  So long as the technical
problems   require  only  objectivity  they  do  not  have
reflexive  difficulties.   They have been  trained  to  be
objective  by  avoiding reflexive situations,  and so  are
objectively  skilled  at the  price  of being  reflexively
incompetent---and regard such incompetence as a virtue!

     To  be objective one must not be reflexive because in
being  reflexive  one   inevitably   becomes   emotionally
involved  in  that upon which one focuses one's attention.
To excel in  objectivity  one must  always  be  objective,
especially  if  excellence  is  to be judged  in  terms of
measurable attributes which may be  assessed  objectively.
The percentage of one's waking time spent in the objective
state of consciousness  may be taken as a measure of one's
dedication  to objectivity.   To excel in this measure one
must avoid reflexive considerations, and so  one will have
difficulties  with reflexive  dilemmas; the price one must
pay for such thoughtless dedication to objectivity.  It is
thoughtless  because  thoughtful reflexive  considerations
are   taboo   according  to  the  dominant  collusion   of
scientists.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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