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 %ADDICTIVE SOCIETY REPRESS CREATIVE HONEST SCIENCE 900715

     When  a  society becomes an addict it  represses  the
forms  of  creativity which would threaten  the  dishonest
games  of  mutual  self deception which  characterize  the
forms  of  addiction  of the society.  Not  all  forms  of
creativity are repressed;  just those which would threaten
the forms of dishonesty which dominate in the society.

     The   United  States  has  nurtured  the   kinds   of
creativity  which  have been needed to win more  than  its
share  of  Nobel  Prizes,   but  repressed  the  kinds  of
technical  creativity  which are essential  to  converting
scientific    discovery   into    profitable    commercial
enterprises. It has also repressed the kinds of creativity
which   are  essential  to  understanding  and   improving
liberating  education  with  regards  to  the  nature  and
limitations of scientists. The two kinds of repression are
related,   and  are essential to protecting the  dishonest
games  of mutual self deception of the dominant  community
of scientists.  In the United States scientific illiteracy
has  led the nation into taking seriously a movie  actor's
fantasy  of  a  technological  defense  shield  which  the
nation's  most  creative  scientists  regard  as   utterly
impossible  to  create;   yet those  same  scientists  are
incapable of understanding why the nation has a  perpetual
crisis  in science education,  and a perpetual  crisis  in
conversion  of  scientific  discoveries  into   profitable
commercial  ventures.   The  creativity  of  the  nation's
scientists is severely repressed by the nation's addiction
to pure research.

     Each  collusive society organizes itself  to  protect
its  dominant forms of dishonesty.  In a collusive society
creativity  can  be tolerated only within  the  boundaries
defined  by the collusive games of mutual  self  deception
which characterize the society;  but creativity in general
cannot  be  understood  or nurtured,   for  creativity  in
general  is  possible  only  when honesty  in  general  is
respected   and  honored  as  essential  to  personal  and
communal integrity.

     When  a  society is addicted to pure  research  based
upon  compulsive  objectivity,  it is incapable  of  truly
reflexive  behavior  which  is essential  to  making  wise
decisions.   Truly  reflexive  behavior is  not  objective
behavior,   and is a threat to people trapped in collusive
games  of mutual self deception regarding  the  apparently
transcendent   value  of  objectivity.   Appearances   are
deceiving  within  an addictive society,   and  compulsive
objectivity appears to have no bias to researchaholics.

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