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%SCIENTISTS OBJECTIVE QUANTITATIVE ADDICT COLLUSION 880930

     Participants in a collusion use techniques to conceal
from  themselves  insights  which  might  undermine  their
collusion.   Games of mutual self deception are  essential
to the maintenance of their conception of reality.    They
must  keep  themselves  from  having  insights  which  are
contradictory to their conception of reality.

     Scientists'   conceptions  of reality are  thoroughly
cognitive,   intellectual,  objective,  and  quantitative.
Their  conception  would not seem as important to them  if
they  were  to  have  emotions  and  feelings  which  they
respected  and  regarded as of great  importance.    Their
cognitive  conception  would  not seem so  meaningful  and
significant  were  they to have  personally meaningful and
significant   intimate  relationships  full   of   healthy
emotions and affective conversations.   Such conversations
might convert them,  turn them  around,  and cause them to
abandon the exclusive games of mutual self deception which
are the essence of their collusions.

     Thus  scientists'  conception of reality comes to  be
used  in  its  own  defense.    Many  scientists  use  the
techniques   of  objectification  and  quantification   as
devices with which  to  defend their conception of reality
against the threats of emotional, affective, and intuitive
insights.   They require that all insights be validated by
objective  and  quantitative technologies before they  are
respected.

     For many  scientists  objectivity and quantifications
are defenses against the threat  of insights  which  might
undermine   their   games   of  mutual   self   deception.
Objectivity and quantification are  technologies which can
be used to  repress  open and  honest  perceptions  of the
dishonest  games  of mutual self deception which originate
in feelings  and emotional visions.   The technologies  of
scientists  can  be  used  as  means  of  repressing   the
emotional and affective insights which might undermine the
scientists' exclusive conception of the nature of reality.

     To  escape from the prison of scientists'   objective
and quantitative paradigm the prisoners need to  recognize
the  disintegrative consequences of choosing to remain  in
the prison.   They must decide to escape from the  prison,
and  to seek ways to transcend the  assumptions,   ideals,
values,   principles,  presuppositions,  attitudes,  etc.,
which hold them prisoner.

     Prisoners need to start to recognize the dynamics  of
the process  which  created  and  maintains  the collusive
games  of  self  deception  as  respectable  patterns   of
behavior.  When the integrity of the patters is seen to be
a  flawed,  it is possible to identify  the cracks in  the
wall  and to see how to push on the  walls and knock  them
down without getting hurt.

     If  the  nature of the structure of the walls of  the
prison  is  not  understood there is the  danger  that  in
trying to break out of the prison the walls of the  prison
will  fall  in  upon the prisoners and destroy them  in  a
catastrophic disintegration of global proportions.

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