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     Helpful  standards  of conduct are maintained by  the
example  of participants  in  exemplary  helpful  behavior
which  helps  real  persons resolve and resolve their real
dilemmas and problems. Through such incarnations those who
have   difficulties  are  empowered  to  transcend   their
difficulties---and so be free to be helpful towards others
in  trouble.   Such helpful behavior is  characterized  by
mutual   understanding   made  possible   through   mutual
acceptance.   The  matters  of credit and  honor  are  not
dominant foci of attention.   What matters to participants
is  that  in  community  they  resolve  and  resolve  real
problems and dilemmas which touch real persons.

     It is not always so.   For some the dominant focus of
their  life is upon the classification of people according
to  how  fully  behavior  is  in  fulfillment  of  certain
standards of conduct. Techniques are devised to refine the
systems  of classification and the methods of  using those
systems to classify persons according  to their appearance
and/or behaviors. Accuracy  and objectivity of measurement
are  valued highly  in  such  classification efforts.   To
technocrats  it  is disturbing to see  persons  improperly
classified and so improperly granted credit. It is thought
that such errors will undermine motivation, for  in  their
state   of   consciousness  motivation  is  perceived   as
originating in a personal desire  to make self acceptable,
based  upon  traditionally  accepted standards of personal
acceptability.    What   matters  is  that  standards   be
maintained    through   their   faithful   use   in    the
classification of persons.  Who  is granted  credit  is  a
dominant  focus of attention.  The natural  consequence of
this way is alienation, the degeneration of dialogue,  and
the creation of real problems and dilemmas as real persons
cease to live.

     Those who  in reality  maintain  standards  of  human
conduct ---  live by  faith.   Those  who seek to maintain
standards of classification---cease to live.    Scientists
and  technocrats,  because of their professional  dominant
focus upon systems  of classification,  may seek  to  cope
with  human  relationships  through techniques of analysis
and  classification.      Through   such   techniques  the
technocratic society is intensified.

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