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  %SCIENCE PARADIGM DESCRIBE PREDICT CONTROL PERSON 910102

    The   paradigm  of  the  scientists  facilitates
the  accurate  description,   prediction  and  control  of
impersonal  behaviors  of objects and  people.    Accurate
description  is often  equated  with understanding;    but
often   it    is   not  understood  that   the   kind   of
understanding which scientists specialize  in is primarily
the  understanding of  analysis and   description,     not
the    understanding     which    is  characterized     by
sympathy,   empathy   and   affective participation.

    The     scientists'      paradigm    leads    to
analytic    & descriptive    understanding   based    upon
impersonal  manipulations   of  those  things  which   are
taken   apart,   reconstructed,      manipulated,      and
controlled.      The scientists'    paradigm  offers great
power  to  make   things conform  to  the  preconceptions,
desires,    and goals of the scientists;  but only  within
certain limitations.

    Scientists cannot make objects behave in any way
they  please.   There are patterns in the  ways  in  which
impersonal objects behave;  patterns which scientists call
the  laws  of nature.    The laws of nature and the  grand
theories   which  describe  how the laws  relate  to  each
other,    all describe the  limitations  which exist  upon
scientists'     power   to manipulate and  control.    All
manipulations  and attempts to be  in  control  fail  when
they  attempt to get  objects  to behave in ways which are
not in keeping with the  patterns described by the laws of
nature,    and  not in keeping  with the   theories  which
describe how those laws relate to each other.

    The  laws  of nature and the theories describing
the  inter-connections  between the laws of nature pertain
only  to  impersonal  objects  and  their   relationships,
because  the  paradigm  of  the scientists  focuses  their
interests    only  upon   impersonal   objects  and  their
relationships.     Their  paradigm   imposes   limitations
upon   the   ways  in  which scientists    may    approach
reality,     and    so   imposes limitations    upon   the
kinds  of  understandings   which scientists may enjoy.

    The   scientists'     paradigm  does not   offer
helpful  guidance  when it comes to dealing with  personal
failures,  embarrassment,   frustrations,  fears,   hopes,
aspirations,   priorities,   ideals  and  values.    These
realities  are  outside the range of what the  scientists'
paradigm pertains to.

    Not   only  does the scientists'   paradigm  not
offer  helpful   guidance  with  regard   to   the   above
kinds  of realities;     it  offers  misleading  guidance,
leading scientists  into  tragic efforts to be in  control
of  such personal realities through efforts to understand,
predict  and control such realities in keeping with  their
objective  and  analytically  dominated paradigm.    Their
efforts  to describe  such  realities  from  within  their
impersonal   paradigm  are  tragically  mislead   by   the
impersonal   paradigm  towards   personal   and   communal
disintegration;    as  in arms races  and the  threat  and
reality  of  modern war using  the  fruits  of  scientist'
clever creativity.

    Citizens   who  are  not truly educated  in  the
tradition  of  the  liberal  arts are likely  to   respect
scientists'  paradigm   within  personal  contexts   where
scientists'   impersonal paradigm does not merit  respect.
Such  citizens  are  likely to seek  technical  fixes  for
personal  dilemmas and  become  participants in addictive,
codependent  and collusive games of mutual self deception;
trying  to  be in full  control  of personal realities  in
the    same   way   in  which  scientists'     and   their
technocratic  admirers  manage to  be  in partial  control
of some aspects  of  impersonal realities.   Their efforts
are  tragically   disintegrative,   for   the  scientists'
paradigm was not designed to promote personal and communal
integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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