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   %ADDICTIVE DESIRE EMOTION CHILD VALUE SCIENTISTS 900610

     In  an addictive society it is proper to be skeptical
of  the reliability of emotions,   desires,   assumptions,
values, ideals and expectations.  Dishonesty is rampant in
an  addictive society.   Yet,  a  compulsive dedication to
objectivity  is  not  a  cure  for  the  problems  of  the
addictive  society,  because the compulsive dedication  to
objectivity  is itself a manifestation of  addiction  with
all the biases which addiction engenders.

     The   addiction   to  objective  research  leads   to
addictive   teaching   practices  and  to  a  failure   to
understand  why  those  practices are  so  ineffectual  in
promoting   integrative  learning.    Professors  who  are
addicted   to  research  lack  the  emotional  insight  to
understand the roots of students'  learning dilemmas,  and
so  seek   technical  solutions  to  dilemmas  which   are
not technical problems.  The professors may be emotionally
dead  due  to emotional abuse in their own childhoods  and
schooling;    active or passive abuse which has left  them
unable to be emotionally responsive or understanding.

     The cycle  of  emotional abuse is completed by people
in   a  technocratic  society  who  are  taught  to  value
objectivity  above emotional  authenticity;   and  who  in
consequence   passively  abuse  their  own  children   and
students  through  emotional  neglect and  the   lack   of
emotional   sensitivity   and   responsiveness.       Such
parents   generate  the  next generation  of   emotionally
unresponsive  scientists  who  are  respected  for   their
professional accomplishments,   while they passively abuse
their  own children and students,  and complete the tragic
cycle again.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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