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%SPECTATORITIS 771107
Spectatoritis is the disease in which people become
so oriented towards being spectators---that they cease
being active participants in formulating their own lives.
Victims of spectatoritis watch teachers lecture, listen to
politicians' speeches, watch/listen to the evening news,
watch athletic events, watch movies about intimate human
relationships, etc.; yet they do not contribute to
learning, political action, making news, playing athletic
games themselves, or get involved in intimate human
relationships. People with spectatoritis sit on the side-
lines and watch the world go by. They exist to be
entertained. Their lives are empty in the absence of
external events upon which to focus their attention.
Victims of spectatoritis are susceptible to political
manipulations, because they have no unique personal focus
in their lives. Their lives revolve about external
controlling factors--factors which clever initiators may
manipulate to their own advantage at the expense of
victims of spectatoritis. To be effective such
manipulations must fulfill the needs of the victims of
spectatoritis--provide activities for them to watch with
minimal participation. Election campaigns are often
designed to achieve such ends. Citizens are not
encouraged to do their own research into the issues and
qualifications of the candidates. They are encouraged to
watch the candidates over-simplify the issues and vote
according to the most impressive spectacle. The most
effective technocratic manipulators thus acquire political
power and intensify the technocratic society through their
manipulations of the victims of spectatoritis ---while
keeping them quite satisfied with their disease.
The cure for spectatoritis is to undermine the
comfort which goes with the disease. The victims need to
be woken up and helped to understand what their condition
is and where it is taking them. They need to become aware
of the possibility of another kind of life, and to
recognize the alternative as to be preferred. They need
to be given new opportunities for participation in large
numbers in setting the priorities for their own lives and
for the life of the community of which they are a part.
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