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     Due   to  political  action   diversionary   research
occupies  the limited time of society's  limited number of
technically.competent   scientists  in  solving   Academic
puzzles rather than in communicating relevant fundamentals
so  that  real  persons  may  solve their  real  problems.
Through faith technocrats expect  diversionary research to
contribute  to hope and meaning.   Such faith is not real,
and tends  to blind people to the ways  in which those who
engage  in  diversionary  research  are  used  scientists.
Because  used  scientists  are kept  busy  on diversionary
research   they  do  not  have  time  to  receive  broader
perspectives and  so  can  not  participate consciously in
helpful political action.

     The arationalists within their state of consciousness
may   well  wish  that  the  rationalists  not  engage  in
political action.   Through collusion it appears that just
as  the  arationalists  are  not  competent  to engage  in
scientific activity so also the rationalists who engage in
diversionary  research  are  not  competent to  engage  in
political activity.  Each group is technocratic in its own
way and unable to communicate effectively with others. The
scientists  do  not mind being used so long  as  they  are
granted by their host.   The politicians the parasitism of
the  scientists so long as the scientists do not  mind the
parasitism of the scientists so long as the scientists  do
not  engage  in decisions and actions which are  effective
political action.  Political recommendations of scientific
technical advisory committees  are  ignored as a matter of
ritual.   Only techniques are accepted.  In this symbiosis
there  is little dialogue and thus little mutual awareness
and even less mutual understanding.

     This symbiosis is able to persist through the myth of
the  value  of all information.   This myth persists  with
power only by virtue of the collusion of participants  who
deny  finitude and so deal with finitude by  ignoring  it.
Participants   feel that in the search for knowledge  they
avoid  making value  judgements  because  any  search  for
knowledge  is valuable.  Because of a lack of concern  for
the  real problems of real persons,  too often analysis is
directed  to  solving  academic puzzles  rather than  real
problems.  This is not to deny that many real problems are
solved via solving academic puzzles. Pointing to realities
such as  this is a quite  proper  function  of scientists.
Likewise pointing to the realities of unmet human needs is
a quite proper function of prophets. The suffering of real
persons caught in  a technocratic society with a crisis in
affluence is a judgment upon  the  unfulfilled promises of
pure  scientists  always  working on academic puzzles  and
rarely  if ever personally being touched by real  problems
of real persons in need.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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