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%VALUING 761126
Valuing is always relative. The affirmation of one
value of necessity often is an act which assigns a lower
value to other possibilities. Valuing has to do with the
allocation of scarce resources. To say that some
possibility is worthy of being valued, as if that was an
isolated and independent judgment, is to be deceptive.
Perhaps self is deceived. Perhaps self knows the
deception and would deceive others. Perhaps self is a
participant in a collusion within which members pretend to
value everything equally, and so allocate scarce resources
as if they were not scarce---rapidly depleting their
resource supply while denying its limited nature. Such is
the case with many technocrats and space-ship-earth's
supply of energy and high quality mineral concentrations.
The foolishness of absolute valuing originates in
intellectual discussions which tend towards absolutes and
ideal forms. When teachers divorce their instruction form
real living, they tend towards analysis appropriate to a
world of ideal forms rather than to a world populated by
people in essentially ambiguous situations. The teachers
forget how to cope with ambiguity, if they ever knew how,
and tend towards analyses in terms of absolutes and ideal
forms. This pattern of behavior is encouraged by people
of like orientation at professional meetings and at
meetings which determine academic retention, promotion,
and tenure.
The antidote to absolute valuing is intimate
participation in the secular political world where coping
with limited resources is a daily experience. Here in
formal and informal ways participants come to terms with
setting priorities for the use of their scarce resources--
-most often represented imperfectly by limited money; but
more and more frequently by limited energy, land, soil,
and minerals which cannot be manufactured by men and
women, as can money. In such real situations participants
find they must decide what is most important, and so they
must ask that question of the owners of the limited
resources in one way or another. This is often difficult
because the owners have not been educated to ask questions
of relative value, and do not have parliamentary
procedures for dealing with prioritizing of a long list of
desiderata which make demands upon limited resources.
Changes must be made.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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