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%EXCLUSIVE VS. INCLUSIVE 760719
When things do not go well for technically oriented
people they naturally seek to rededicate themselves to
traditional values and so intensify their efforts to
fulfill those values. This leads to improvements in
quality and quantity of techniques. It also leads to
increases in the quality and quantity of resources
sacrificed to the fulfillment of the traditional values.
People who are not exclusively oriented to technical
approaches to situations are free to re-examine the values
which they are seeking to fulfill. When they find things
are not going well for them, they may discover that they
have inappropriate assumptions, attitudes, and values.
Exclusively technically oriented persons are not free to
make that discovery. Inclusive people can recognize when
changed conditions call for changed assumptions,
attitudes, and values.
Inclusive people are more likely to survive than are
exclusive people. Exclusive people tend to become
alienated and so cut-off from others upon whom they are
dependent. Exclusive people can persist through the use of
coercive political power, but it will ultimately fail
them. Dictatorships are not dynamically stable, and so do
not survive long in a changing society. They may prolong
their life by repressing change. Exclusive people may seek
to survive through greater dedication to their exclusive
values, and so more narrowly define who is "in", "good",
"trustworthy", "valuable", "intelligent", "righteous",
"professional", etc. Such an attempt is ultimately self-
defeating because the exclusive group becomes smaller and
smaller, until it is too small to defend itself against
those who have been excluded. To the extent that
technically oriented people are exclusive people they will
not survive well.
Inclusive people are not only likely to survive, they
are likely to survive well. They are not as prone to
being ill-at-ease and so not so prone to disease. They
are more likely to be well; socially, psychologically,
spiritually, and physically. They are not as likely to
idolize any technology or its fruits---regardless of the
nature of the focus of the technology; physical, human,
social, spiritual, analytic, synthetic, artistic,
organizational, etc.
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