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  %DISHONEST FIXING DEFECTIVE PERSONS ADDICT ASSUME 900520

     The  roots  of  addiction  are to  be  found  in  the
acceptance   of  the  assumption  that  rejected/alienated
persons  are  defective and in need of being fixed.    The
mirror  image of that assumption is that which  says  that
defective  persons  should  be  rejected  until  they  fix
themselves  to make themselves acceptable.   The corollary
of  these assumptions is that it is o.k.   to show respect
for people's acceptance of these assumptions.   People who
play  the roles of victims often do so by accepting  these
assumptions  and  demonstrating  the consequences  as  the
victims  thereof.    In all of these  tragic  transactions
dishonesty plays a central role.

     It is dishonest to pretend that technical fixes   can
correct the alienation which flows from manipulative human
actions  and reactions,  which are technical  attempts  to
solve non-technical human  dilemmas that are not technical
problems.     Reflexive  relationship-dilemmas   are   not
technical problems,  and cannot  be fixed through reacting
to  them  in technical ways.   Addictions  are  compulsive
patterns  of  attempting  to  fix  human  alienation  with
technical solutions to dilemmas which are not problems.

     Emotional honesty   is  essential    to    creatively
responding  to  the dilemmas inherent in alienation;   yet
emotional   honesty  is reflexive in character,  and so it
is taboo to people who are trapped in the collusive  games
of self deception,  games which  perpetuate the  pretenses
of  the objective  paradigm. Technocrats in the service of
the objective   paradigm   cannot  permit themselves to be
emotionally    honest  as  they  are confronted with   the
dilemmas of human alienation; so they react with technical
behaviors and seek fixes as addicts do.

     Jesus is reported to have observed that we shall know
the  truth  and that the truth will make us  free.    What
truth?   Perhaps he knew and was suggesting that  when  we
know  the  reflexive truth about ourselves and our closest
friends,   we shall be free  to  be ourselves and to enjoy
personal  and communal integrity.  Knowledge of  objective
truths does not by itself set us free. Objective knowledge
can    be   used   in   manipulative   ways   which    are
alienative/disintegrative and which imprison us.

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