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     In  technique self speaks the primary word 'I-It'  to
accomplish  a  goal selected by self.   Often part of  the
goal is to keep self as self is.   It is the other that is
to be manipulated and changed.   This may be  accomplished
via  techniques  which  make it appear to   that  self  is
different  than  self is known to be,  but it is  not  the
intent in technique to really change self through the  use
of technique.  However,  through the use of technique self
may in reality change self dramatically, without awareness
of,   and  much less full control of,  the  changes  which
follow as natural consequences of certain patterns of  the
use of technique in the absence of authentic meetings.

     Technocrats  make use of techniques to solve  certain
problems:   Expand  and  speed up  technical  channels  of
communication,   prevent  certain  diseases,   facilitate,
transportation,   expand  technical  training,   plan  for
comfort in old age,  avoid pain, prolong life, govern more
efficiently,  manage information more efficiently,   delay
death,   entertain more efficiently,  cause good feelings,
inhibit  violence,   control crime,   promote  creativity,
improve  intelligence,  manage the genetic  pool,   insure
salvation. Success at each stage constitutes encouragement
that  techniques can be devised to succeed at even  higher
levels.  At the same time there is a continuing process of
redefinition of what constitutes success,  so that further
"successes"   are made possible.   The original goals  are
perceived  to have been "unworthy"  of the improvements in
techniques  and so new goals are selected which  are  more
"worthy"  of the modern techniques.  That which has become
possible  thereby  becomes  desirable.    In  these   ways
techniques open up limitless vistas for human fulfillment-
--or  so it seems to the technocrat.  There is some  doubt
about  the  survival value of the endless  utilization  of
techniques.

     Liberal arts colleges have the opportunity of helping
students  both know and understand modern science.  It  is
not  enough  to become expert in the techniques  of  modem
science,   It  is also essential to become  aware  of  the
limitations  of  science so that scientists may serve  the
needs  of  real persons who seek hope and  meaning  within
authentic meetings.
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