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%REPRESSION OF MYSTERY 770916
Repression of mystery is motivated by technocrats'
desire for a world-view which offers them full
understanding and control. Since their mythology involves
a deterministic perfection which is devoid of mystery,
their meaning in life is occasioned by the elimination of
mystery, by whatever means available. Since their
ultimate concern is analytic insight, knowledge,
intellectual understanding and control; i.e., the
elimination of mystery---all means towards those ends are
regarded as proper.
Since the technocrat worships the elimination of
mystery, repression is a legitimate means towards that
end. Thus where analytic insight, knowledge, and
intellectual understanding do not have the power to
deprive processes of their mystery---technocrats resort to
repression to eliminate mystery from consciousness on the
part of themselves and others. Collusions are formed
according to which essentially mysterious processes do not
exist; the technocrats and their victims become
desensitized to the essentially mysterious aspects of real
living. Taboos develop to inhibit unfiltered experiences
of that which is essentially mysterious. The technocratic
culture ensures that all experiences are perceived through
the filters of analytic insight, verbal knowledge, and
intellectual understanding. It is taboo to perceive
without those filters---for they protect against
dangerous, immoral and unethical perceptions/desires.
Real humane living involves intimate, affective,
sensual, sexual, subjective, I-Thou, etc. type
experiences---which lose their character whenever the
participant attempts to understand and control them; i.e.,
attempts to deprive them of their mystery. Objective
analysis of such realities represses their realization,
and thereby represses mystery---in fulfillment of the
technocrats' dreams. Through such repressive analysis
technocrats find their barren meaning in life and rob non-
technically oriented people of the opportunity to enjoy
mysterious encounters.
Much of the technocrats' program for the repression
of mystery takes place within the educational processes
which they dominate. Students are trained via tangential
responses and other repressive behaviors---to be
indifferent and/or violent towards mysterious
relationships and communications.
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