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  %NARROW SPECIALISTS AFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY LOVE WAR+941230
    %EXCLUSIVE EXPERTS EMOTION SCIENCE ACCEPT FORCE+941230
   %OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC EMOTION REFLEXIVE RELATION+941230
  %FREEDOM SECURE DEFENSIVE THREAT FEAR FAILURE JOY 941230

     Personal  and communal integrity are both  threatened
when  people  and  communities  thoughtlessly accept   the
assumption    that  there  is  no  hazard in    respecting
people   who  have  specialized  in   objective-scientific
considerations   so   much  that  they  are   effectively-
reflexively impoverished  and immature; or else accept the
assumption that there is no hazard  in respecting   people
who have specialized  in   reflexive   human relationships
so   much   that   they   are   objectively-scientifically
impoverished and immature.

     For both personal  and communal integrity to grow and
survive  it  is  essential  that there be the  integration
within particular individuals---of expertise in objective-
scientific   considerations  and  expertise  in affective-
reflexive considerations.      So  long  as  people do not
share  the  vision of such integration of  expertise  with
regards   to   objective-scientific   consideration    and
expertise     with    regards    to    affective-reflexive
considerations---so  long it will be impossible for people
to  enjoy  both personal and communal integrity with  true
security which is free from the threats of fear.

     People  who are exclusively  objective-scientific  in
their  expertise are unable to engage in open  and  honest
dialogue  with  people  who  are  exclusively   affective-
reflexive in their expertise. Such  people  are  bound  to
regard  each   other   with  suspicions,   doubts,   fear,
apprehension,   insecurity and defensive instincts in high
gear.    They  are  bound to react within  their  mode  of
specialization---without regard to the complementary  mode
of specialization of the other.

     Reflexive  reactions  are bound to  be disintegrative
when such reactions undermine open and honest dialogue.

     Experts who  are  specialists who are unable to be in
dialogue  with  each other  for lack of a  common  set  of
shared  experiences and shared languages---are people  who
can   not  cooperate,  and  cannot  resolve  conflicts  in
integrative ways.

     Narrowly  specialized  experts are bound  to  try  to
eliminate  the threats which  they see each other  present
by trying to eliminate each other,  they are not trying to
understand  each other  through open and  honest  dialogue
which entails being free  to be safely vulnerable to  each
other through freely  giving  and  accepting gifts of true
security.

     Security    is    not   achieved    through    narrow
specialization on  the part of some people using defensive
technologies  of  objective  manipulations,   threats  and
control.     Such  specialization  leads  to  experts   in
defensive  technologies  who  exclude  from  their   lives
respect for  affective-reflexive experiences and maturity.
Such specialization in like manner  leads  to  experts  in
affective-reflexive experiences  and  maturity who exclude
from their lives respect for objective manipulations. Each
group of experts has  from  their  point of view very good
reasons for  not respecting   the   expertise   of   their
complimentary/contrasting opposites.

     So  long  as  people array themselves  opposite  each
other as experts  in  mutually  exclusive  camps  of over-
specialization---they  are  bound to regard each  other as
threatening   armies   ready   to   do  battle  with   the
absurdities of  each  others'  exclusivities.    Regarding
each other  as threatening armies leads them all away from
both   personal  and  communal   integrity---through   the
disintegration  of  all possible grounds for  respect  and
mutual understanding.

     Personal  and communal integrity are both  threatened
when  people  and  communities  thoughtlessly accept   the
assumption   that  there  is  no  hazard   in   respecting
specialized experts in objective-scientific considerations
who are effectively-reflexively impoverished and immature;
and   likewise  thoughtlessly  accepting  the   assumption
that there is no hazard in respecting specialized  experts
in reflexive  human relationships  who   are  objectively-
scientifically impoverished and immature.

     For personal and communal integrity to increase it is
essential that the process of integration of  objectivity-
science   and  affection-reflexivity  occur   within   the
attitudes, assumptions,  beliefs and total lives of people
and their leaders;  not merely within the texts of leading
scholarly journals.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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