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In a technocratic society you need permission to be
human. For this reason a technocratic society is an
inhumane society. People can not be themselves. They
must conform to technocratic prescriptions which define
their environment, diets, physical exercise, religious
practices, friendships, educational efforts, sexual
relationships, social activities, etc. Specialists in
each domain of life stand ready to prescribe the proper
environment and behavior patterns. Deviants who want to
be themselves must ask permission to be themselves when
they are not naturally in conformity to the legalistic
prescriptions of the technocrats. Deviants must seek
technocratic and possibly divine assistance to become
changed individuals who conform to expectations, rather
than fulfill their own potentialities. Technocrats define
human fulfillment in terms of conformity which is often in
conflict with unique individuals' potentialities.
Technocratic parents often introject into their
children denials of permission which stay with their
children into adult life. The childhood denials are
rarely lifted by the parents via any ritual of passage out
of a developmental stage wherein the constraints might
have been helpful. The chains which were placed upon the
child thus drag down the adult who is unaware that they
continue to hang on and constrain adult behavior in
unhelpful ways. The adult may even fear to ask permission
to drop the chains---due to fear instilled in their
childhood and burned into the subconscious so that great
effort would be required to cast it out. When a child has
been denied permission to be himself/herself---the adult
is likely to need parental release from that denial via a
rite of passage and /or communal support in casting off
the inappropriate constraint. Otherwise the adult is
likely to be the victim of an out-of-date parental
guardian ghost--- who will continue to deny permission to
be an authentic human.
True lovers do not deny their children the permission
to be human, and so greatly reduce the need for release
from inappropriate guardians in adult life. True lovers
thus tend to undermine the technocratic society and
technocrats in defense of their technocracy tend to deny
lovers permission to be themselves.
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