This-essay is a7311123.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PROPHET 731112 A person who tells it like it really is to those engaged in political action is a prophet. A prophet is not a participant in the collusions which enslave other persons. The prophet understands human finitude and the total human condition with more transcendent insight than do others. The prophet is free to see ways of dealing with finitude which transcend the techniques of the technocrat. The technocrat may invent an infinity of ways of postponing physiological death without ever being free to choose death. The prophet will point to realities which give meaning to both life and death ---without detracting from the usefulness of the techniques of the technocrat. By being free to see and to choose meaning in both life and death---the prophet is able to anticipate and create the future. Thus we have the origin of the shallow notion of the prophet as the foreteller of the future. The prophet may tell it like it really is---to those engaged in misguided political action. The false prophet is a participant in the collusions which enslave many people. The false prophet will predict a wonderful future upon the appropriate use of available techniques and faithfulness to present values. As a participant in the collusions of others, the false prophet is not free to see the unexamined assumptions which are woven into society. The false prophet may accurately perceive and discuss technological trends, but by helping conceal the human meaning of those trends acts as an agent in fulfilling thoughtless trends. The false prophet thus may appear as a real prophet to those who have only a shallow notion of the nature of the prophet as the foreteller of the future. The false prophet is an essential agent for the intensification of the technocratic society, and for those who profit from it. Those in the technocratic state of consciousness may perceive the time prophet as using a strange language which may make no sense---because the language is not congruent with the unexamined assumptions and the collusions of the technocrats. The true prophet is almost always disturbing to his or her listeners. The false prophet is usually reassuring to her or his clients. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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