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%ALIENATION OF SEXUALITY 780121
Sexuality may helpfully be seen as motivation toward
the union of complementary: bodies, values, perspectives,
ways of coping, etc. Technocratic exclusivity tends to
occasion the alienation of whatever might be
complementary. Thus technocrats tend to view sexuality in
isolation, apart from a life of integrity. By reducing
sexuality to an isolated activity and regarding it as
nothing more than that isolated activity, they set it up
for a fall, and identify it with the original sin in the
mythological fall of man---and tend to blame women for the
consequent problems. They label sexual relationships as
sinful---and do not recognize that their labeling
activities are what occasion the sin/alienation which they
seek to explain.
The irony of this pattern is that sexuality is an
essential aspect of love which transcends alienation---yet
sexuality is labeled as essentially alienative in
character; i.e., sinful, promoting alienation. (Sin is
the condition of being alienated, of blocked
communication.) The irony is not accidental, however. The
irony is occasioned by the collusions of technocrats who
seek to protect their exclusive perspectives and
interpretations of the nature of reality. To protect
their exclusivity they must undermine the powers which
tend to transcend exclusivity; i.e., love, dialogue,
sexuality, affection, etc. To undermine such powers
requires that they be misrepresented as dangerous, risky,
untrustworthy, unlawful, evil,etc. Such misrepresentation
is facilitated by sloppy thinking, ambiguous statements,
over-simplifications, tangential communication,
repressions, etc. Unsuspecting well-intentioned people
will attack the misrepresentations and so help oppose the
powers which tend to promote the transcendence of
technocratic exclusivity---and thus help intensify
technocracy.
The transcendence of technocracy will naturally
involve the reintegration of sexuality into the mainstream
of human life. Sexuality will cease to be an isolated
aspect of human life, and be an accepted integral part of
daily humane relationships between people of integrity
within communities of integrity.
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