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   %SCIENTIST MYTH OBJECTIVE NEUTRAL TECHNOLOGY USE+940417
  %REFLEXIVE PARADIGM SPIRITUAL RELATION MANIPULATE+940417
   %WEAPONS VIOLENCE DISINTEGRATE PERSONAL COMMUNAL 940417

    Scientists  and  technocrats  over the  years  of  the
scientific and technological revolutions have developed  a
myth  of  objective neutrality---according to which  their
objective  paradigm  is  value-neutral and  yields  fruits
which are value-neutral.

     The  myth of objectivity says that the responsibility
for the use of  the  fruits of science and technology  lie
with the end-use people who use the fruits, not in any way
with  the  people  who  maintain  the  objective  paradigm
according   to  which  reflexive  personal  and  spiritual
relationships are less real/important than are objects and
objective  relationships.    The  myth of  objectivity  is
clearly  a  reflexive reality---for it  is  maintained  by
compulsively  objective  people  to  their own  advantage,
while pretending that  the myth is  an  objective  reality
which transcends the possibility of reflexive bias.

    Compulsively  objective people blind themselves to the
possibility that their myth of objectivity is a  reflexive
reality  which   sets the  stage  for violent manipulative
personal  relationships.  Because of the myth  people  are
often    treated    as   separated   objects   worthy   of
destruction---rather than as  as reflexive  expressions of
one    cosmic    whole    within   integrative    personal
relationships.

    If  the roots of tragic technocratic violence are  not
feed    by    scientific   research   and    technological
developments;    perhaps  the  roots  are  feed   by   the
maintenance  of the reflexive myth  of  objectivity  which
makes  it seem natural to treat people objectively---as if
people  are   isolated  objects worthy  of  destruction---
rather  than as reflexive expressions of one whole  cosmic
being.

    People  who  make ultimate assumptions which  lead  to
self fulfilling prophesies should be honest about the fact
that their ultimate assumptions  are  assumptions;  rather
than demonstrated objective facts which are independent of
all assumptions.    Objectivists should be asked to openly
and honestly describe  their most fundamental assumptions,
their   nature;   and the consequences of the  assumptions
which they make and dishonestly pretend to be demonstrated
facts.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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