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%REFLEXIVE EXPERTISE AUTHORITY SPECIALIST TEACHER+990701
%WITHIN TECHNOCRATIC COLLUSIVE COMMUNITY PROFESSION 990701
The need for reflexive expertise and know-how often
poses a dilemma; especially within communities/professions
which value objectivity, collusions, religious authority,
addictive traditions, perfection, self-righteousness,
secrecy, etc. This is so because reflexive expertise
entails:
1. Experts' being truly free to be safely vulnerable
in open and honest dialogue about all ultimate values,
ideals and principles --- and about the experts' failures
to fulfill their own ultimate values, ideals and
principles.
2. The experts' transcendence of objectivity,
collusions, religious authority, addictive traditions,
perfectionism, self-righteousness, and secrecy.
3. The transcendence of almost all experts'
tendencies to try to APPEAR to be expert, competent,
knowledgeable, trustworthy, wise, reliable, experienced,
righteous, better, superior, etc.
4. The ability to transcend the limitations of
formal languages and formal dialogue which depends upon
formal languages': vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes and
other traditions.
5. Humility about superior levels of knowledge,
experience, righteousness, creativity, originality, inter-
relationships, perceptivity, dialogue, friendships,
intimacy, counseling, advice, etc.
6. Discriminating between mere appearances of
expertise on the one hand, and true expertise on the other
hand.
7. Dealing gently, graciously, and helpfully with
people of less: power, knowledge, ability, insight, know-
how, authority, skill, etc. --- who presume to have more.
8. Transcending the assumption that the key to real
security is the achievement of invunerability through the
use of various means, tools, devices, technologies, etc.
9. Experts learning how to transcend the temptations
which are peculiar to being the best experts who are
around.
10. Rising above the provincialisms of the community
upon which the experts must depend for respect, honor and
support.
These considerations are especially relevant when
dealing with dyfunctionality within human relationships,
friendships, intimacy, and sexuality --- including such
dysfunctionalites on the part of experts. It is
impossible to be objective, scientific, or perfect in
coping with such dysfunctionalities --- but respected
people often try to appear to be so.
The following list is suggestive of a few of the
dilemmas and problems which cannot readily be
resolved/solved in the absence of the transcendence of
many of the dilemmas and associated problems suggested
above:
1. Imprudent pre-marrital sexual intercourse.
2. Teen-age pregnancies and parenting.
3. Sharing of sexual diseases; e.g., AIDS.
4. Debilitated childhoods and adolescence.
5. Mental diseases, retardation and disabilities.
6. Pornography and prostitution.
7. Dysfunctional sexuality within marriages.
8. Sexual and/or romantic addictions.
9. Abuse of sexuality within profitable advertising.
10. Sexual abuse of women and children.
11. Sexual discrimination in its various forms.
12. The population explosion
13. The depletion of limited natural resources.
14. The garbage/entropy explosion.
15. Ineffective medical care for sexual dis-eases.
16. The disintegration of religious institutions.
17. The disintegration of political institutions.
18. The disintegration of families and communities.
19. The growth of addictions and collusions.
20. The general decline of global civility.
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