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     Disintegration    follows    when   any    presumably
comprehensive  system for understanding fails  to  provide
within the system a meaningful place for experiences which
are personally felt to be important.

     If  a system claims to offer a comprehensive  way  to
meaningful human understanding, it can validate that claim
only  by  meaningfully  offering to  integrate  all  human
experiences  in a coherent way into personally  meaningful
communal  life.   If a system refuses to deal with certain
classes of human experiences, it is in no position to make
a  respectable  claim to be comprehensive in a  meaningful
way.

     Scientists   refuse   to   deal   meaningfully   with
subjective human experiences;  thus scientists cannot in a
meaningful way claim to be offering a comprehensive way of
understanding.   Their pretensions lead to the  alienation
of subjective life from objective life,  to  instructional
difficulties  in science education,  and  to  manipulative
arms  races  in addictive and futile attempts  to  control
subjective  life  through  objective  means.    Scientists
confuse  the issues through their pretensions of having  a
better  way  to  understanding  than  others  have.    The
confusion is the confusion of an addiction.  The confusion
leads  to  crises which occasion people to call  upon  the
experts, who created the crisis, for advice on how to deal
with  the  subjective  crises;  and the  advice  from  the
creators of the crises perpetuate the crisis mentality and
the  habits  of  the hearts of the people  who  perpetuate
crises.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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