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               %COMPULSIVE OBJECTIVITY VS INTEGRITY 870108

     Objectivity   requires  a  separation   between   the
observer  and the observed;  the breakdown of any possible
emotional  identification  between  the  two  elements  of
reality.  The roles played by the two elements of reality,
observer   and  observed,   are  (in  the  objective  way)
objectively different.   The observer plays an active role
with   superior  power  to  make  decisions  and  set   up
conditions under  which  other elements are to  go through
their thoughtless processes.  The observed elements in the
drama make no decisions,  take no initiatives and leave no
feelings.    They  follow a predestined  script  which  is
entirely predictable.  The actors in an objective drama do
not  play equal roles;  the experimenter/observer  clearly
plays a superior role,  the observed elements clearly play
inferior roles.

     Objective   experimenters  relate  to  their  objects
objectively  with superior power and become accustomed  to
playing  the superior role in relationships with  objects.
In  the  absence of personal training in the  dynamics  of
entering   into  personal  relationships  which  are   not
objective,  such  objective  experimenters  are  naturally
likely  to  relate  to people in a manner taken  from  the
manner  in  which they relate in most of  their  relations
with  other  elements of reality,  how they relate to  the
powerless   objects   which  are  manipulated   in   their
experiments.    Thus  objectivity  is likely  to  dominate
relationships among  the experimenters,  and  they are not
likely to have  overtly developed personal ways of dealing
with  power  conflicts  among themselves.   They  are  not
likely  to  have a paradigm  for  promoting  personal  and
communal integrity  in  ways which demonstrate justice  in
the exercises of power.

     When manipulated, non-personal  objects  do  not show
resentment, frustration,  and alienation; the way in which
personal  objects do.   Dealing with personal elements  of
reality in the manner in which one deals with non-personal
elements of reality leads to different  kinds of responses
than in the  case  of non-personal elements.  Integrity is
disintegrated  when  people  are treated without  personal
respect and integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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