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     Through   a   program   of    systematic    objective
investigation  people  may  gain a mutual understanding of
the processes of cause and effect.   Through  ensymbolment
people may communicate some of that understanding to their
replacements as the crew  of spaceship earth. Through such
accumulated understanding, the crew of spaceship earth may
gain the power to manipulate the controls of the spaceship
in accordance with  political decisions which may increase
the survival value of the crew.

     Insight  into  the condition of the crew of spaceship
earth is  different than a  mutual  understanding  of  the
process  of  cause and effect.   Insight is not  often the
fruit of a program of systematic objective  investigation;
as  insight  most often occurs in the eternal now in which
manipulative desires do not dominate the  will.    Insight
comes  to  those  who  are dedicated  to  openness towards
others, and towards the reality of the common condition of
all  people.   Thus,  insight occurs when people  are  not
successfully   maintaining  standards  of  arrogant  self-
respect --- when collusions are exposed for what they are,
and  the  possibility of hope and meaning without them  is
revealed.

     Technocratic  people   in   a  technocratic   society
compulsively  seek to maintain realities which they cannot
control: The existence of limited resources, the necessity
to  eliminate wastes,  the need to eat,  sexual states  of
consciousness,   the  necessity  of  personal  replacement
through reproduction,   the reality of  the beginnings  of
lives which are not infinite,  the reality of  the endings
of  lives which are  not infinite,   the finite history of
spaceship earth,   the  limitations of science,   and  the
impossibility of complete self-transcendence.

     Encountering  these realities and honest by  pointing
to them  are occasions for insight which may help the crew
of spaceship  earth  deal  with  finitude  in  hopeful and
meaningful ways.

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