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     %SCIENTIST PREOCCUPATION OBJECT ACCEPT CONTROL 890205

     Objectivity is important to scientists as a means  to
control.   Scientists gain a sense of importance in  being
able   to  understand,   predict  and   control   objects.
Scientists  tend not to be as comfortable in dealing  with
human  personal predicaments as they are in understanding,
predicting,  and manipulating impersonal objects which can
be controlled.

     People   can   not  be  understood,   predicted   and
controlled  in  objective ways.  Scientists at some  level
understand  this  fact of life and focus  their  attention
upon  those things which can be understood,  predicted and
controlled;  yet,  they hope to gain personal satisfaction
in understanding, prediction and control.

     Scientists  in  a technocratic  society  are  victims
along  with  other addicts and codependents  of  childhood
training  which focused their attention upon control as  a
means  to gaining acceptance.  Scientists are  preoccupied
with   finding  truths  which  can  be  confirmed   beyond
reasonable   doubt   in  what  esteemed  colleagues   will
perceive,  feel, think and fear.  Confirmation in communal
affirmation  is  important  to  scientists;   it  is   the
foundation of objective consensus.  Objectivity has to  do
with general communal consensus.

     Objectivity can be achieved in part through collusive
games  of  mutual  self deception.  That  upon  which  all
esteemed colleagues agree is regarded as objectively true.
Care  must be taken to be sure that the right  people  are
properly  esteemed,   and that the wrong  people  are  not
improperly  esteemed.   Self  esteem  must  be  rooted  in
objective  facts,   else it is not worthy of  respect  and
encouragement.  People who are not properly concerned with
the  world of objects and facts are not worthy of  esteem.
People  who  show interest in non-objective realities  are
not worthy of esteem; they are not properly controlled.

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