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 %OBJECTIVE PARADIGM EXCLUSIVE VALUE IDEAL FAIL JOY+940710
     %INTERNATIONAL TRADE IMBALANCE MONETARY POLICY+940710
     %REFLEXIVE SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVES GOALS SUCCESS+940710
 %NARROW EXCLUSIVE SPECIALIZATION GENERALISTS WHOLE+940710
  %INTEGRATION CONTEXT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE COHERE 940710

     It  is  useful to look for systemic reasons  for  the
frequent  failures  of  scientists  who  are  compulsively
dedicated to objectivity to be as successful as they might
be in non-research professions.  There is a great contrast
between  the  pure  research  "success-stories"   and  the
failures  in  the  application  of  the  findings  of  the
successful pure research.    The  contrast may be noted at
the  individual  level  and at the national  level.    The
nations  (such as the USA)   which are most successful  in
pure  research  are  not  as  successful  in   instituting
successful  application of the findings of  the  research.
The nations (such  as Japan)  which are most successful in
applying the findings of pure research  are  not noted for
successful pure research.  The international imbalance-of-
trade  problems  between  the United States and Japan  are
closely related to this failure  of pure researchers to be
successful in promoting  appropriate uses of the  findings
of their pure research.

     Pure  researchers are trained in graduate schools, in
programs which are dominated by pure researchers who  were
themselves  trained  to specialize in a very  narrow  way.
Their   educational  system  places  great  emphasis  upon
specialization, and progressively narrowing the focus of
the attention of successive generations of students;  upon
being exclusive in focusing their attention.  They promote
the focusing of  attention exclusively upon pure research,
to the exclusion of having any interest in the application
of  the findings of the pure research.   Students are  not
trained to look for profitable applications.

     The  graduate  school training programs  place  great
emphasis upon transcending bias through objectivity.    In
keeping   with  the  above  noted  emphasis  upon   narrow
specialization,   the the focus upon  objectivity  becomes
very narrow and exclusive.    Ideals and  values which are
complementary   to  objectivity  are  excluded  from   the
curriculum, and students'  consideration for lack of human
individuals' time, energy and attention.

     When  objectivity becomes important in  an  exclusive
way it becomes important for people to deny the importance
of activities which  entail  reflexive  aspects  which are
clearly not objective  in nature---and exclusivity becomes
active   in   undermining  the  integrity   of   reflexive
processes.    Specialization promotes dichotomous thinking
and if objectivity  is  good and  supremely important then
reflexive behaviors must be evil and to be avoided;  i.e.,
excluded.

     When  people  have become exclusively objective  they
have  great  difficulty in reflecting upon  the  reflexive
aspects  of  what  they  are  doing;   because   exclusive
objectivity  calls  for  the  elimination  of  reflection,
meditation,  prayer,  evaluation,  acknowledging mistakes,
learning from mistakes,  changing paradigms, etc.  Success
is a reflexive reality which compulsively objective people
cannot talk about openly and honestly with integrity;  for
the  criteria  for  success  is essentially  reflexive  in
nature, and talking about the criteria openly and honestly
would  expose the collusive games of mutual self-deception
which  are part of the success story of the paradigm of
exclusive  objectivity.    To  be  successful  in  the
objectivists' paradigm is to be a split personality.

     People  who have traditionally supported  objectivity
with respect, praise and financial means need to look more
carefully to see the consequences of their respect, praise
and financial support.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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