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A sensitive person is aware of other persons'
feelings, thought patterns, and emotional needs---without
being explicitly told what they are. Such awareness is
not equivalent to awareness which comes through overt
messages. The fact that the awareness originates without
overt messages---gives the awareness a significance
different from that which originates in overt messages. An
effort to confirm the awareness---is likely to modify the
significance of it---even when the awareness is confirmed
positively. Such inter-personal awareness is thus in a
domain which is sometimes subjected to objective
violation. The value of such awareness is not subject to
objective confirmation. The value of such awareness is
known to those whose lives are enriched by it. They may
witness to its value. They know it as a subjective
reality, but it cannot be confirmed as an objective
reality via traditional scientific procedures. Such
subjective awareness often has great practical value. It
may transform human lives. It may accomplish what
institutions and techniques cannot accomplish. It may
realize human potentials which are unresponsive to
systematic programs. It may transcend the limitations of
science, and free the technocratic society from its
collusions.
How is it possible for technocrats to recognize
sensitive persons? Traditional objective techniques will
most likely violate sensitive persons---rather than help
identify them. Thus sensitive persons are not likely to
make themselves known to a confirmed technocrat; it would
be risky to do so. A sensitive person might make
tentative approaches to a technocrat who no longer has
unquestioning faith in techniques, and who publicly is
open about doubts regarding traditional faith in
knowledge, skills, techniques, etc. If such tentative
approaches are appropriately responded to, communication
may begin to bridge the dichotomy between complementary
approaches to human situations. Each person may discover
that their traditional approach is not the answer to the
ultimate questions and dilemmas in the human condition.
Such beginnings may help avoid needless tragedy.
Through sensitivity, communication is increased and
personal potentialities made evident. New questions
become evident. Communicants become free to surrender
themselves to the fulfillment of human possibilities,
rather than to the proliferation of technological
machines.
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