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%ROAD TO HELL 770802
The road to hell is paved with broken communications,
not with disrespect for heartless legalism. Lovers do not
respect heartless legalism---they transcend the futility
of legalism with meaningful mutual concern. Lovers' lives
are ordered in terms of personal commitments and mutual
concern rather than in terms of commitments to impersonal
rules, regulations, constraints, restraints, ethics,
morals, etc. Lives ordered in terms of impersonal
commitments are lives full of broken communications---and
are lives lived in the hell of alienation and
misunderstanding. People in hell do not understand each
other; they can not meaningfully communicate via
dialogue---even though they may exchange technical
information.
Those who violate legalistic injunctions may do so in
a loving way, or may do so in an unloving way. Legalists
will find it difficult to distinguish between the two
efforts to transcend the limitations of legalism---because
legalists are insensitive to the presence of power of
love. They examine objective actions without perceiving
the motivation and meaning of the actions. They judge
objectively rather than subjectively/reflexively.
Objectivity is valued more highly than is
subjectivity/reflexively---so they perceive their attempt
at coping to be superior to that of non-technically
oriented people's way. Thus technocrats pave the road to
hell by occasioning many broken communications---even as
they attempt to prevent others from traveling on that
road.
Technocrats concern themselves with temptations to
violate the collusions of their professions. Thus they
sponsor rituals in which corporate activities reaffirm the
unexamined assumptions of those making the professions---
be they religious, political, nationalistic, scientific,
intellectual, affective, or other. The larger the number
of participants in such rituals the more powerful they
seem to be---in conventions, worship services,
professional meetings, political rallies, etc. Such
meetings help participants repress doubts and ambiguities
and thereby block internal communication---thus promoting
personal sin; i.e., the breakdown of personal integrity.
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