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                   %ENSYMBOLMENT VERSUS INCARNATION 730923

     With the advent of technological means of information
dissemination  it  has become respectable  to generate and
disseminate   much   information  via  clever   means   of
ensymbolment.     In  the  confusion  of  the   flood   of
information  there has  been  too little communication and
even less dialogue.   Information  has  been taken to  the
same as wisdom; and the peoples perish.

     Education   too   often  has  been  reduced   to  the
dissemination of information.   Too often truths which  do
not  yield  to  ensymbolment are denied,   or  even worse,
ignored.   Wisdom does not have the opportunity to develop
under the chaotic flood of information about the past. The
student  learns  that he is not o.k.  because he  can  not
accurately  and  without  feeling  store  and  retrieve on
command the "important" bits of information.

     Technological    means   of   information    storage,
retrieval,   and  dissemination lack the power  of  making
value judgments which might bring the flood under control.
Men who become part of the machine will in a  similar  way
lack the power to bring the flood under control; for their
fulfillment  is in  nothing  other  than  the  generation,
retrieval, and dissemination of the flood of information.

     In earlier  days  mortals played a  central  role  in
societies'  information management systems.   Information,
truths,  and  wisdom were incarnate or else were  lost  in
preference  for that which mortals regarded as more worthy
of their  finite  attention.   The  flood  was  controlled
through  human  finitude  and mortality.   Because  of the
central role of incarnation;  information,   truths,   and
wisdom  were  not so often confused with each other.   The
ancient  information-management-system   had  a   built-in
evaluation-power-center in the soul of each element of the
system.  This is no longer true.

     Modern   education   has   too   often   focused   on
technological  means  of  information  management  in  the
absence of the more traditional incarnations of truth  and
wisdom  within  mortals who deal with  finitude seriously.
Our education factories produce technocrats  out  of  real
students.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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