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                  %SCIENTISTS CODEPENDENT ADDICTION 870504

Addicts  and  codependents  are victims of  the  addictive
process  in  which participants come to  desperately  need
each other and what they dishonestly provide in the way of
needs and services.

     Addicts  need  the  enabling  help  of  codependents.
Codependents need  the  need  of the  addicts for enabling
helpers.   They cooperate not in strength  but in weakness
which  is  progressive.    Their relationship  is  one  of
desperate dependency without meaningful hope.

     Modern  people are often addicted to  scientists  who
serve as codependents.  Modern people are in  need  of the
enabling help  which scientists and supporting technocrats
offer  to provide,  and which deaden the insecurity of not
having self esteem rooted in any personal ground of being.
Scientists find their  fulfillment  in  helping to provide
the  focal impersonal substances, services  and activities
for   addictive   behavior:    material  goods,    certain
knowledge,   expanded  understanding,  increased  control,
weapons of defense, etc.   Scientists do not  help  people
transcend   the   addictive  process  because   they   are
codependents in the addictive process.   Scientist need to
be  needed  by the addicts who focus upon  the  goods  and
services which scientists provide.

     Science  does  not  provide the  foundation  for  the
transcendence of the addictive process, because scientists
are  committed  to objectivity;  to  detachment  from  the
objects of their study.  Scientists are participants in an
addictive  process  and  can not  detach  themselves  from
themselves in  an objective way.   Part of their addictive
process  is  to  be  dishonest about  the  nature  of  the
process.   The pretense of being objective can be used  as
part of the collusive games of mutual self deception which
are  central  to the addictive process.   People  who  are
ultimately committed to appearing to be objective are  not
well suited to engage in the reflective/reflexive behavior
which is essential to promoting both personal and communal
integrity within communities which are disintegrating  due
to the various manifestations of the addictive process.

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