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%ENJOY REFLEXIVE INTEGRITY OBJECTIVE ADDICTION LOVE 900804

     To   enjoy  reflexive  integrity  a  person  and  the
person's  community  needs  to  have  the  security  which
facilitates  open and honest reflection on  mistakes  made
and  so  to  be  free to learn the lessons  which  may  be
learned from mistakes made.

     A  person may be prevented from honest reflection  on
mistakes   because  of  compulsive   preoccupations   with
objectivity  which  make non-objective reflexivity  taboo.
This  is  illustrated by scientists who  are  compulsively
preoccupied with objective relationships to the  exclusion
of  reflexive  relationships  which  cannot  be  measured,
computed,  predicted, controlled, rationalized, etc.  Such
people  cannot  enjoy  reflexive integrity because  it  is
forbidden by their dominant paradigm.

     A  person may be prevented from honest reflection  on
mistakes which have been made because they are embedded in
an  addictive society which is playing collusive games  of
mutual self deception,  wherein certain mistakes cannot be
admitted,  for to admit to them would be to undermine  the
pseudo-integrity of the collusion.  In such a community it
is  forbidden to honestly admit to having made  the  meta-
mistake of becoming a participant in the dishonesty of the
collusion.

     The  compulsively  objective scientist has  made  the
mistake  of  having become a participant in the  collusive
meta-games  of  mutual self deception of  people  who  are
pretending that their personal fulfillment can be achieved
by  being  exclusively objective in all their work.   They
fail  to  acknowledge that such exclusive  objectivity  is
logically  impossible;  and pretend that their behavior is
"scientific" and so free from bias,  when in fact it lacks
integrity because those who participate in it are not free
to  be reflexively honest in considering what it  is  that
they  are doing,  what it costs to them and to  others  in
resources used,  lost opportunities, and in disintegrative
consequences.   Through  neglect of essential  aspects  of
healthy  living  they themselves lead unbalanced  personal
lives  which  in  turn  lead  others  to  become   trapped
participants   in  the  collusive  paradigm  of  exclusive
objectivity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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