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     Those engaged in battle have long known the technique
of divide and conquer.   A group which has been fragmented
does not have the power to jointly engage in decisions and
actions.   Thus any program which fragments a group may be
used to render it less powerful  and thus more susceptible
to outside management. Fragmentation leads to surrender.

     Within  academic  institutions  students  are divided
according to their major field of study.   They have  been
divided  away  from  the working world just  by  virtue of
being inside an academic institution.  They  have  by  the
same technique been divided away from the political world.
By virtue of the modern invention of adolescence they  are
separated   from   meaningful  involvement   in  authentic
religious   communities.   The  fragmentation  of   modern
institutions  serves  to divide students  into  groups  of
differing states of consciousness.   When the youth of the
society are thus divided, the technocratic society is in a
better  position to intensify itself by helping  the young
people conform themselves to the needs of the technocratic
society.   Education ceases to be education,  and  becomes
instead a training process which helps young people become
acculutrated to the realities of the technocratic society.
Their brains become washed of the new questions which they
might have asked of technocrats.

     It need not always be so. Not all students become the
victims of  the fragmentation  which  characterizes modern
institutions.    Some  manage to  maintain their integrity
through dialogue with real students who seek to be helpful
to others.

     It is  difficult in a technocratic society to find  a
way out.   For, in an effort to avoid falling into a trap,
one may  become  suspicious,  and  so  divided  away  from
others.   One  may  seek security in techniques which have
alienation as their  natural consequence.   One  may  seek
emotional  security in a degree of certainty which exceeds
what is  possible due to the  essential  uncertainties  of
real  living.   No  divisive  actions can be  an effective
defense against  principalities and powers which  tend  to
divide and conquer.

     The only way to transcend forces which tend to divide
and  conquer  is to seek ways to facilitate  dialogue  and
authentic meeting through the development of an ability to
understand each other's strange language.   To do this all
must slow down,  and listen and read more often, and speak
and write less often.
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