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   %OBJECTIVE PEOPLE CONFORMAL INTIMACY LOVE HONEST 930304

     Objective  people  are  people  who  engage   only in
essentially objective relationships;  un-involved in  open
and honest personal intimacy, love, and sexuality.

     Objectivity as a discipline designed to enable people
of   integrity  to  discover  the  nature   of   objective
relationships   between   objects---is  objectivity  which
serves a particular technical purpose.   Objectivity as  a
way  of life is a tragic  perversion  of true objectivity;
and leads to collusive  games  of  mutual self  deception,
manipulation,   and  violence.    True  objectivity  is  a
technical means which can be wisely used, not a god worthy
of worship.

     At  the heart of each tragedy is  a  misunderstanding
and/or mis-interpretation of some value or ideal.   People
who are victims of tragedies have sought to  fulfill  some
mis-understood  or mis-interpreted ideal or value;  and in
doing so  become involved in  conflicts between the  ideal
and/or  value  as they have understood or interpreted  it;
and ideals, values, realities,  and limitations which were
not properly honored or taken into account.

     People  who make objectivity a way of life  sacrifice
to objectivity   the   possibilities   of   true  intimate
relationships  which  are  characterized by  personal  and
communal: openness, honesty, integrity,  and balance.   In
the  place of such relationships they create relationships
which  are:  objective,  prescribed,  formal,   conformal,
quantitative,    measurable,    and  controllable.    Such
relationships  are rarely as significant or satisfying  as
those which are sacrificed to objectivity.

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