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      %VALUE NEUTRAL ADDICT TECHNIQUE SCIENCE IDEAL 901006

     It   is  dangerous  for  idealists  to  believe  that
scientists  and  technicians  can  serve  to  fulfill  the
idealists'  ideals,  without the ideals of the  scientists
and  technicians  working  in subtle and  hidden  ways  to
change  the  idealists'  ideals so as to  conform  to  the
ideals of the scientists and technicians.  Scientists  and
technicians are not value neutral; their paradigms are not
value neutral; their services are not value neutral.  Only
participants   in   addictions   and   their   codependent
supporters'   collusive  games of  mutual  self  deception
believe that scientists and technicians can serve in value
neutral ways.

     Scientists   and  their  supportive  technicians  are
dedicated  to  the  values  of  learning  how  to  control
impersonal objects through:  analysis, measurement, linear
logic, impersonal manipulations, & dichotomous  reasoning;
where statements are true or false, eliminate mystery; and
focus on objectivity, mathematical logic, and confirmation
of  predictions.   Their  ideals,   values,   beliefs  and
perceptions  are  more  like those of  addicts  and  their
supportive codependents, than like those of healthy people
with   the  integrity  which  comes  from  being  free  of
unhealthy  addictive and codependent ways  of  perceiving,
believing, thinking, feeling and behaving  --- so as to be
in control.

     When  we go to scientists and technocrats and ask for
their  help  in  fulfilling our ideals,   we  usually  get
seduced  into believing in the worth of their assumptions,
beliefs,  values, ideals, and techniques.  They lead us to
slowly  and imperceptibly change our ideals and values  to
conform to theirs, so that they can do their things in our
service,   while  we  are  led  to  think  that  they  are
fulfilling our ideals and values.  The results are usually
tragic as in the military arms races  of the 20th century;
with  unlimited  increases  in how  destructive wepons are 
made  and increases in the fraction of victims of war that
are non-combattants.     "Smart" bombs kill more civilians 
than they kill combattants.

     We  need  to transcend the scientific  and  technical
revolutions,   and  move  onto  revolutions  in  reflexive
clarification of the ways in which our highest ideals  and
values  often  lead  us  into  tragically  addictive   and
codependent  ways  of perceiving,   believing,   thinking,
feeling and behaving.

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