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                               %CRISIS IN AFFLUENCE 730913

     Many  of  today's adults lived their childhood in  an
earlier  era in which many valued projects  could  not  be
accomplished because of  a  lack  of certain material  and
technological  possessions.   Their childhood recording of
what is needful includes many occasions of frustration  in
the  face  of  lack of  things.   "If only we had  certain
things we  could  do what  needs to be done."   was  often
recorded   in   the   child.   The   uncritical   childish
interpretation which is recorded in the child is something
like,  "To do what is  needful,  accumulate  the necessary
things."  The immature child can not  perceive the complex
of   decisions  and  actions  necessary  to  fulfill   the
potential of the things which are accumulated.   Thus  the
recording  in the child pertains to accumulation,  but not
to wise use.

     The  modern older person (whose child recordings  are
of the above sort)  is likely to excel in the accumulation
of  things---especially  if  there  is  not  a   conscious
awareness   of  how  such  childhood  recordings  dominate
motivation and thoughtless interpretations.

     Whereas   the  present  older  generation  faced  the
problem  of an inadequacy of things,  the present  younger
generation faces a crisis in affluence.  The present older
generation  has had little if  any  experience  in dealing
wisely with a crisis in affluence.   This is a new dilemma
which calls for new questions. (Dilemmas are not problems.
Problems   are  not  dilemmas.)   The  old  questions  and
motivations are often irrelevant.  The crisis in affluence
will not be solved by additional accumulations,  not  even
by  additional  accumulations  of  information and/or  its
clever technocratic  management  via new techniques.   Yet
our  economic  system and other tradition  encourage  such
irrelevant behavior.

     Technocrats  living  within  a technocratic  state of
consciousness can not honestly ask the new questions which
will resolve the crisis in affluence; they are not free to
see the realities  which demand---new questions which will
be  asked by attractive scientists who can put things into
the perspective of  intimate relationships---  by entering
into  dialogue  with  persons  in  a variety of states  of
consciousness.

     The evolution  of  our technocratic  society  into  a
humane  society  can  become  possible  only  through  the
political actions  of such attractive  scientists.    Only
they  can  help  organize  group  discussions  for setting
priorities around timely new questions.

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