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%PROHIBITION OF VULNERABILITY 770905
The emotionally insecure technocrat fears
vulnerability so much as to be threatened by other people
entering into relationships which involve vulnerability.
Personal vulnerability undermines the technocrats'
presumed source of security; i.e., self control. To the
technocrat security flows from the knowledge of good and
evil, and of the techniques to defeat evil and defend
good---thereby fulfilling proper expectations. To permit
vulnerability is to grant evil an opportunity to undermine
a systematic program for achieving good. The technocrat
is thus threatened even by others' relationships which
involve personal vulnerability. The technocrat as
legalist tends to prohibit vulnerability by prohibiting
personal relationships which involve vulnerability.
The technocrat tends to regard responsibility in
legalistic terms---usually with an individualistic rather
than a corporate emphasis. To be responsible means to be
in control as an individual; it does not mean being a
vulnerable participant in a union which transcends the
participants. Thus the technocratic society tends to be
an individualistic alienative society, even if it pays lip
service to the ideals of love, socialism, communism,
and/or solidarity with the communal welfare. In a
technocratic society personal vulnerability to non-
technical relationships is repressed in favor of
vulnerability to non-personal technical requirements.
Personal vulnerability is an essential aspect of
meaningful: emotional growth, personal meeting,
expressions of physical affection, sexual relationships,
intellectual intimacy, and communal living. The
prohibition of vulnerability undermines the meaning and
integrity of all processes in which vulnerability is an
essential ingredient. Legalistic requirements and/or
skillful manipulation can not substitute in ways which
will assure the fulfillment of meaningful relationships
with integrity. Fulfillment is impossible without taking
the risks involved in personally trusting others within
highly vulnerable relationships. To prohibit
vulnerability is to prohibit Love. God is Love. Love is
the Power which unconditionally promotes meaningful
dialogue.
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