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  %SCIENTIST MOTIVE SATISFACTION FULFILL IDEAL TECH 910220

     To work to promote personal and communal integrity in
a  technocratic society it is essential to understand  the
nature   of   scientists'   motivations,    satisfactions,
fulfillments and ideals; for the processes which drive the
development  of  the technocratic society depends  greatly
upon these aspects of scientists'  lives.   This essential
kind of understanding of scientists is taboo to scientists
who  are  compulsively  objective  in  their  approach  to
reality,   for this essential kind of understanding is not
objective---it is reflexive.  Thus the people (scientists)
who are most familiar  with the lives of scientists cannot
understand   the  nature  of   scientists'    motivations,
satisfactions, fulfillments and ideals.

     The essential kind of understanding may develop  only
in  people who are not compulsively objective  scientists,
but  are  well informed about the  lives  of  compulsively
objective scientists.   Such a combination is rare  within
the  technocratic  society,   due  to  its  emphasis  upon
dichotomous   either-or   logic.  In the  absence  of  the
essential   kind  of   understanding   of  the  nature  of
scientists,    the  addictive  processes  of   technocracy
progresses to  higher and  higher levels of intensity,  as
is the case  for  all addictive  processes,  regardless of
the  focus  of   the addiction.

     For the  technocratic  society to recover health,  it
needs  to support members  of  the  society  who  learn to
understand  the  motivation of  impersonal scientists  who
escape  from  intimacy through compulsive  objectivity  to
avoid the risks of vulnerability in intimate relationships
which  are open and honest.  Objectivity can be used as  a
defensive  technology to minimize the risks  of  intimacy,
but objectivity cannot be used as a technology to minimize
the risks  of  alienation, estrangement, misunderstanding,
defensiveness, terrorism, war,  and  the disintegration of
persons  and communities.

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