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                 %VALUES OF INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS 870116

Independent individuals resist  becoming involved in
ways  which  are beyond their  control  in  interdependent
communal   cooperation---   which  they  can   not   fully
understand, predict and control.

     Scientists  seek  to  be  able to  fully  understand,
predict and control everything.

     Scientists  are part of the universe which they  seek
to understand, predict and control; thus their paradigm is
essentially   self-referential,    reflexive.   The   more
objectively    successful   objective   people   are    in
understanding,   predicting  and controlling objects;  the
more important it is for them to personally understand how
their  objectivity is threatening their own integrity  and
that of planet Earth.

     Without  personal integrity objective people can  not
coherently control their newly discovered power to destroy
their  coherent  planet's ecosystem which occupies just  a
tiny part of the universe.  Self deception about habits of
trying to be objective is not characteristic of people who
enjoy  personal integrity.   Mutual self deception  is not
characteristic  of  people who enjoy  communal  integrity.
Efforts  to  maintain  the illusion of the possibility  of
total   objectivity  undermine  efforts  to  promote  both
personal and communal integrity on a planetary scale.

     Integrity  with  regards to our  perceptions  of  the
objective  world will disintegrate unless it is integrated
into   efforts  to  promote  both  personal  and  communal
integrity  on  a planetary scale.     Scientists  can  not
succeed as independent individuals  who  seek  to  protect
themselves against rejection by choosing values and ideals
according to which personal  rejection is not respectable.
Choosing  to  be  an independent  individualist is not  an
effective  protection  against  alienation which leads  to
evil and sin experienced as the disintegration of patterns
of mutual dialogue.  Excluding oneself from a community is
not  much  of a defense against being  excluded  from  the
community;   nor  is pretending not to care about being  a
member of the  broadest  possible community any protection
against the loneliness of rejection.

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