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                          %SATISFACTION AND MEANING 731203

     Some  achieve satisfaction through the clever use  of
techniques,  yet without the broader context which  offers
hope and meaning to that satisfaction.   The  satisfaction
may  be  nothing  more than the  fulfillment  of  childish
desires  to compensate for the frustrations of  childhood.
The thoughtless fulfillment of childish desires will yield
temporary satisfaction,  but not hope and meaning.    This
situation   is   not  transcended  by  the  use  of   very
sophisticated  techniques  nor  the  consumption  of  vast
resources.   If  motivation is thoughtlessly  childish  in
character,   even the use of sophisticated techniques  and
the consumption of vast resources will not cause the  full
control  of  the effects.   Technocrats can not  lead  the
technocratic society into utopia by fulfilling  impossible
dreams.

     For  satisfaction and meaning to be bound together in
hope  it  is essential that there be an awareness  of  the
origins and character of primary motivations.  This is not
possible   without  consciously  dealing  with   finitude,
including  the  death and birth of what is valued.   Value
judgments  can  not  wisely be made without a  breadth  of
mutual  awareness which includes the nature  of  childhood
and   the   foundations   which  are   laid   there.     A
superstructure  which does not fit the foundation will not
stand,   no  matter  how sophisticated and great  be  that
super-structure.    The adult must build on the foundation
which was laid in childhood.  This requires a knowledge of
that  foundation,   which was for the most  part  laid  by
parents,   and  by  the child in  emotional  responses  to
parents.

     These are realities for the research scientist,  just
as  for the typical non-scientist.  The values  which  are
real  to the research scientist originate as do the values
of  the non-scientist.  The satisfaction and meaning which
may  be  real to the research scientist is common  to  all
humans. The alienation which separates research scientists
from  non-scientists does not make them a special species.
Thus it would be helpful for scientists and non-scientists
to  seek a mutual understanding of the real  possibilities
for  satisfaction  and meaning within the context  dealing
with finitude.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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