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     Secrecy  is often favored in a technocratic  society.
Techniques  associated with secret operations are  taught,
and  in  the teaching of them the students are  taught  to
respect  and  value those techniques  and  the  operations
which involve them.   The socialization process causes the
students  to  see  secrecy an as essential  element  of  a
successful   society,   and  themselves  as  the  faithful
servants of such a society.  Their satisfaction then comes
from  excellence  in secretive  ventures.    Intelligence,
creativity,  dedication,  and motivation serve the purpose
of secrecy.

     Secret  operations  inhibit  openness,   directly  or
indirectly.  Secret operations are manipulative in nature.
Persons who are deprived of relevant truths are alienated.
Personal relationships become adversary  relationships  of
mutual  manipulation.   The nature of the game may be such
that  the only possible conclusion is for all  contestants
to  lose.    It  may  still  be  a  game  enjoyed  by  the
contestants.     Technocrats   are  concerned   with   the
fulfillment  of  technique,   not  with human fulfillment.
Human disintegration is an acceptable price to pay for the
fulfillment of technique.  In secrecy, technocrats enjoy a
sense of fulfillment in knowing  the power that they wield
over those who do  not know.    They become self-important
due to their secret power.  Via collusions, they see their
behavior  to be in the  national interest,  while  in  the
national  interest it must remain privileged  information;
i.e., secret.

     Secret  operations  may be  overpowered  by  superior
counter-manipulations, or secret counter-operations.  Such
a  response  does not bring an end to  secret  operations.
The response intensifies secret operations.

     Secret operations, and alienation engendered by them,
will  come  to an end only when the  technocratic  society
recognized  its  self-destructive tendencies;   and  seeks
holistic/human ways of coping with the human situation and
with  human  non-technical dilemmas.   The  advantages  of
secretive   manipulations  must  be  weighed  against  the
destructive    consequences    of    valuing     secretive
manipulations,   and  finding  them  acceptable.    It  is
virtually impossible to truly value any approach highly in
a restricted  aspect   of  one's   life.     If  secretive
manipulations are highly valued anywhere,  they are likely
to become pervasive in all of life.  Secrecy generates the
conditions which are considered to be its justification.

                                                                                                                               
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