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  %DOMINANT OBJECT PARADIGM SCIENCE REPRESS EMOTION+931030
  %DENY OWN SELF OTHER EMOTION ACKNOWLEDGE SECURITY 931030

     So  long as we are dominated by an objective paradigm
and by narrow specialists who revere an objective paradigm
which demands the exclusion of reflexive realities such as
our emotions---so long we cannot know, own,  enjoy, share,
assign meaning or learn from our true emotions.    We will
be alienated from ourselves and each other.

     If  we  cannot truly know and share our  emotions  we
cannot  truly  know and understand each  other.    To  the
extent   that   we  are  alienated   from   each   other's
understandings  of self and others as emotional  creatures
we are likely to seek  to  treat  each other as objects in
objective, coercive, manipulative, and violent ways.  Such
behaviors serve no  honest or creative purposes;  they act
to further alienate us from ourselves and from each other.

     If it is not safe for us to demonstrate to each other
how we feel,  we  cannot  be demonstrative in meaningfully
dramatic ways;  we cannot show our true feelings and so we
repress  them  until  they  explode  in  some  destructive
violence.    Thus  many apparently  nice  people  suddenly
become violent in ways  which even their closest "friends"
and "family"   do not understand and cannot explain.  They
were   not  intimately  known  by  anybody  and  in  their
alienation  and  frustration  finally  express  all  their
repressed emotions violently in a desperate attempt to get
back in touch with themselves.  It is thus not safe for us
to repress our emotions in dishonest ways.

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