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Some regard pleasure as an inappropriate goal---and
others regard pleasure as the only appropriate goal. The
former find pleasure in objective/analytic activities
dealing with objects, ideas, and laws. They regard their
activities in an objective way and are relatively unaware
of the pleasure they derive from their activities. They
do not perceive the desire for pleasure as influencing
their value judgements, choices of how to spend scarce
resources, or rational/logical processes. They regard
those who openly seek pleasure as being on a lower level
of existence. Their collusion blinds them to the source
of their motivation.
Those who regard pleasure as the only appropriate
goal are often honest about what they seek. They tend to
be successful in enjoying pleasure for a brief span of
time, but tend not to act in ways which will promote the
long-term enjoyment of pleasure. They do not know how to
sacrifice a little pleasure now---in order to assure the
possibility of greater joy and pleasure over the long-
term.
Those who lock with condescension upon the pleasure
seekers tend to justify their short-term activities as
means to long-term fulfillment. They tend, however, to
make deferral of fulfillment into an ultimate good---and
their lives become filled with means to fulfillment which
is never permitted to be present. Thus pleasure becomes
the repressed motivation for striving, and alienative
techniques become the ever present reality of life. Such
is the dynamic of the technocratic society which is driven
by repressed desires---and knows not what it is striving
for. Its future is seen in the fulfillment of
technological possibilities, not in the fulfillment of
human beings. The fulfillment of technological
possibilities gives the machines no known and acknowledged
pleasure, and so is acceptable. That the fulfillment of
technological possibilities gives the technocrats pleasure
is not honestly admitted, for that would make clear to
others what was the purpose of the drive for technical
progress. Others might decide that serving such a
special interest group was not in the public interest;
would not lead to personal and communal integrity.
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