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    %ABUSED TOOLS OBJECTIFICATION DEPERSONALIZATION+950804
     %RESPECT DESIRES HOPES FEARS ASPIRATIONS NEEDS 950804

     Alienation occurs when people objectify/depersonalize
each other and use/abuse each other as expendable tools.

     Objectification, depersonalization,  use and abuse of
people by people,  are all intimately inter-related;   and
are encouraged by people who are compulsively objective.

     An object  which is a tool has  no  desires,   hopes,
fears, aspirations, needs, etc.

     When a goal  has  been  reached,  a  tool  may become
unnecessary and may be discarded.  It is desirable only so
long as there is  or may be a use for it.   A  tool is not
desirable in and of itself.

     When a person is cast in the roll of a tool, there is
the threat that the person may become unnecessary, and may
be discarded.   The person who is a tool is desirable only
so  long as there is or may be a use for it.   The  person
who is a tool is not desirable in and of itself.

     Preoccupations  with   objects,    objectivity    and
manipulations   lead  naturally  to  treating  persons  as
objects,   objectively,  as things to be  manipulated  and
abused.

     People who have been treated as objects are likely to
be    preoccupied   with   objects,     objectivity    and
manipulations---for  they  are not familiar with open  and
honest  personal  relationships;  and so  not  comfortable
with them. Such people are more comfortable with objective
relationships    and    so   avoid    intimate    personal
relationships.    They  are  likely to  try  to  regulate,
discipline,   manage,   and  otherwise be  in  control  of
personal relationships in ways which are  patterned  after
working with objects; objectively.

     To  learn to minimize disintegrative  objectification
we  need  to  recognize the ways in which  some  feed-back
loops   tend  to  amplify  objectification---as  suggested
above.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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