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%RISKING LOVE 761018
The technocrat (who trusts techniques exclusively)
perceives love as risky and seeks to protect self and
others from the possibility of failing to fulfill
expectations. Because the technocrat values techniques of
manipulation exclusively---they are chosen as priority
means so regularly that they dominate the ends which they
ostensibly serve. In the end, the technocrat chooses ends
which can be accomplished only by the valued means at
hand. The ends are chosen to justify the means. The
means are chosen first. Then the technocrat seeks ends
suitable to and capable of justifying those chosen means.
The technocrat perceives love as very risky, and the
worship of techniques as safe---because of the very
predictable results of that worship. Because love is
unpredictable, it is not to be trusted. Because
technology has predictable human consequences---it is to
be trusted, even though those human consequences are
inhumane.
The world view of the technocrat is threatened by
love. Love reveals the inconsistencies in the
technocratic world view. The technocrat values
consistency. Love thus exposes the lack of integrity in
the technocrat's values and value system. Such a judgment
is hard to accept when acceptance is based upon fulfilling
expectations---as is the case for the technocrat. Thus
the technocrat, in defense of the technocratic society,
seeks to undermine they way of love. This is done by
seeking to block communication, because love is recognized
as essentially the power of opening channels of
communication. Thus the technocrat, in the name of love,
seeks to regulate communication to promote human welfare.
The confusion engendered thereby effectively blocks
communication among and between the self and others.
Seeking to regulate communication to promote human
welfare---is a divisive technique which is used by
technocrats to oppose the openness promoted by love.
Those who love see the divisive technique for what it
is. They willingly share their lives in sacrificial
service to help transcend such excommunicative techniques.
They live lives of non-manipulative service and find
fulfillment in many years of working to promote openness
of people to each other's real self.
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