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%CONDITION VS PROCESS 771004
At a superficial level a condition is static, and
process is dynamic. Upon closer examination all conditions
are found to be processes in which the change which is
taking place is not evident. Failures to recognize the
practical implications of apparent conditions which are
resource consumptive processes will lead to serious
consequences.
Technology has made many essential and unessential
processes of former times appear to be conditions
fulfilling basic human needs: water supply, sewage
disposal, garbage disposal, farming, food preparation,
transportation, shelter heating-cooling-illumination, etc.
The proper functioning of a process comes to be regarded
as a static condition---and its resource demands are
forgotten. As a consequence water is needlessly left "on",
automobile engines are uselessly left "on", furnaces are
needlessly left "on", air conditioning systems are
thoughtlessly left "on", and lights are left "on" when
they serve no useful purpose. Resource consumptive
processes are left in the "on" condition, as if the "on"
condition was a static situation which made no demand.
Such irresponsible behavior is not likely to be ended
until what appear to be "conditions" are recognized as
processes, processes which do make demands upon our
communal resources.
People are often viewed as "conditions", unchanging
entities, rather than as processes. Human relationships
become strained in situations in which the reality of
process is not accepted, and relationships are regarded as
static rather than dynamic. Human relationships as
dynamic processes demand: human time, energy, attention,
emotional involvement, intellectual focus, physical
presence, etc. To view people and their relationships as
conditions---is to presume that they can exist in the
condition of "process" without changing or making demands.
Such a view is misleading and tends to be destructive, as
in the parallel case of natural resources in the physical
realm.
Many of our problems can be resolved only upon our
changing our perspective their nature --- whether they
pertain to "conditions" or "processes."
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