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When technocrats forbid certain kinds of human
relationships they transform the images of the nature of
those relationships so that the people who seek to fulfill
the creative potentials of such relationships become
trapped in those destructive aspects of the relationships
which justified the technocrats' prohibition. The
prohibition transforms people's expectations. The focus
of attention moves from humane possibilities which might
be affirmed, to the feared aspects of experimentation in
fulfilling human potentials --- with the vulnerability,
ambiguity, uncertainty, risks, failures, and suffering
entailed in real living. By fixating attention on the
risks, technocrats divert attention from the creative
possibilities. Certain types of human relationships
become stereotyped as to their potentials and
consequences. The stereotyping does not respect the full
range of helpful possibilities within various
relationships. The lack of respect originates in the fear
of immature people who stereotype the relationships and so
undermine emotional growth and maturity on the part of the
next generation.
Far more helpful than forbidding particular kinds of
human relationships because of the risks involved, is to
give support to persons willing to experiment in
developing the humane potentials of new kinds of human
relationships --- with the vulnerability, ambiguity,
uncertainty, risks, failures, and suffering entailed in
them. There are long traditions of supporting adventurers
who are willing to risk much in geographic travels, in
literary experimentation, in musical innovation, in
scientific research, etc. Why should there not develop a
tradition of offering support to adventurers who are
willing to risk their lives in experimenting with new
kinds of humane relationships? Such relationships will of
necessity range outside the bounds of traditional
propriety and social conventions --- otherwise they would
not be new. Of course the adventurers should not be
forced into adventures any more than any other kind of
adventurer should be forced to embark on an unchosen
journey. Mutuality and balance within novel human
relationships should be a prerequisite to supporting them.
By avoiding the stereotyping of relationships, some
adventurers may find novel new ways to solve social
problems and dilemmas in non-technical ways.
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