This-essay is a7504091.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 ========================================================== %TRUSTING SELF 750409 On seeing others fail to fulfill expectations many persons seek to develop techniques of manipulation which will minimize occasions of future failure. Rules, laws, taboos, conventions of propriety, innuendoes, policies, and other means are developed to guide people to fulfill proper expectations without fail. When failures inevitably occur---techniques are developed so that they may be attributed to causes other than the essential absurdity of trying to prevent failures through manipulative techniques. Via collusions it appears that some persons are weak, stupid, lazy, immoral, incorrigible, or downright evil---in their essential nature. The knowledge of good and evil is used as a basis for sorting out which persons are of this nature---and with which other persons it is safe to associate. Children and adolescents are trained not to trust their own instincts and intuition, and instead told via violent messages to trust external authorities with their techniques which are designed to prevent failure in human relationships. Instincts and intuition are suppressed, become unknown, and so become feared realities. In such a technocratic society persons can not trust themselves with their most basic natures. They can not trust the desire to come close to others and to be intimate with others. Such closeness and intimacy reawakens instincts which will not be fully controlled by the technocrats' techniques. In a primitive society security is found in closeness and intimacy. In a technocratic society security is sought in techniques of control which inhibit closeness, intimacy; and so inhibit commitments to openness. A rediscovery of intimacy in a technocratic society is a improbable event, one which occurs as a threatening miracle; which is all that can save the members of the technocratic society from their mutual manipulations. The rediscovery of intimacy within a technocratic society is a revolution; one which will undermine the inhumane manipulations which characterize it. Technocrats will try to suppress intimacy. Failing that they will try to program intimacy in keeping with the principles of the technocratic society. It will be difficult for members to learn to trust themselves, because of their previous training, and because of the continuing use of the technocratic value system, to coerce members into conformity with the values of the technocratic society. Even so, love, trust, openness, and intimacy may prevail. (c) 2003 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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