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%USEFUL RELATIONSHIPS 770621
Technically oriented people make use of objective
relationships between measurable quantities. The
knowledge of such relationships enables them to understand
and control objective processes in order to fulfill
expectations of achieving desired goals. The technical
relationships are means to ends. The ends justify their
focusing attention upon those relationships. When
technically oriented people seek governmental support for
research into relationships they justify the proposed
support in terms of the benefits which may be expected to
result.
When technically oriented people attempt to enter
into intimate personal relationships they may carry over
into such situations the perspectives indicated above.
They may perceive the personal relationships as means to
ends and justify focusing attention on those relationships
in terms of the benefits which may be expected to result.
The personal relationships may be regarded as means which
are not valued apart form utilitarian considerations.
To enter into personal relationships as means limits
the kinds of personal relationships which may develop.
Genuine personal intimacy may not be achieved for ulterior
motives---even though the motives may be good and/or
unconscious. To justify intimate personal relationships
in terms of their being means toward good goals is to
undermine the possibilities of the relationships.
Technocrats will thus find it very difficult to discover
the full range of possibilities of intimate personal
relationships. Their objective research will fail to
reveal the nature of genuine intimacy in its varied forms
--- because many of those forms will be obscured by their
motivations.
These considerations indicate that the transcendence
of the technocratic society will not be facilitated by
technically oriented people; especially if their
orientation is exclusive. Transcendence will involve
people who meet each other without ulterior motives.
Through their involvement new insights into the
possibilities of personal intimacy will emerge and be
shared among those who are dedicated to openness and
honesty. Such insights will facilitate states of
consciousness which well free people from technocracy and
its imprisoning perspectives.
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