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           %CONSEQUENCES OF OBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS 860717

     In  objective  relationships  people  presume to have
total control over and understanding  of the  consequences
of  objective circumstances relating  to objects.   In the
light of that presumption they presume to be able to  make
a  commitment to  achieve chosen/specified consequences by
their manipulation of circumstances.  A failure to fulfill
such a commitment is presumed to be a sign of a failure of
intention, will, dedication, intelligence, etc; and worthy
of  implicit  or  explicit censure.   There  is  no  overt
recognition  that a failure  to  fulfill  such  commitment
might  be  due to factors which  are  utterly beyond human
control.

     Relationships which involve human beings are never as
unambiguously objective as they are often  presumed to be.
By virtue of the human involvement  they are  not entirely
objective in character.   If there is no human involvement
they are not entirely objective in character. If  there is
not human involvement there is no  human knowledge of them
and such relationships are of not concern to humans.  They
are   not   discussed  by  humans.   The   objective   "?"
relationships  which  are of concern  to  humans  are  not
purely  objective by virtue of  the  fact that humans  are
interested in said relationships.

     The  greater is human  involvement in a relationship,
the less total is the possibility  of  there  being  total
human  control  over the consequences of the relationship:
the less the relationship has  consequences  which may  be
totally     understood/controlled    as    an    objective
relationship.   The  greater  is  the human commitment  to
achieving   a   pre-specified  consequence  to some  human
endeavor,  the greater is the involvement of humans in the
relationships,  the less objective they are,  and the less
sure humans can be of total control over the outcome. Thus
a commitment to success in being totally objective is in a
paradoxical way a self defeating commitment.  As a  result
it  undermines  both  personal  and   communal  integrity;
tending as it does to lead humans to  play games of mutual
self deception regarding the  nature of the commitment and
of  its  consequences.   Such commitments  set  in  motion
strange loops of reflexive consequences.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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