This-essay is a7803231.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE 780323 Ignorance is one of the foundations for arrogance. A little bit of technical knowledge occasions temptations to perceive reality without ambiguity, and so with great confidence. The incomplete perception leaves the technically knowledgeable person with the impression of a reality which is subjectively simple and objectively complex. The understanding of the objective complexity is in principle to be understood in terms of an economical set of fundamental principles which explain the interactions of the elementary/unchanging constituents. The little bit of technical knowledge obscures the more profound ignorance of the variety of perceptual matrixes within which one may grow to diverse understandings of the nature of reality. The technically oriented are prone to presume that there is but one reality, and that it has but one nature which will be discovered by all careful seekers of truth. The exclusive nature of their presuppositions tends to exclude them from mutual awareness and mutual understanding with others who approach life in a different way by living in a different way according to a contrasting life-style. Arrogance is bred by exclusivity which blinds the arrogant to the values which they judge to be technically impractical. Arrogant people are often passing technical judgment upon others' values---rather than examining the conflict between their own values and others' values. Technical judgments beg the question regarding the values which the techniques serve. Making decisions about values is not an essentially technical activity. We are in peril when we sit idly by and watch technocratic experts undermine what we value, just because they are "professional", "specialists", "smart", "educated", etc. leadership in affirming values ought never be left to technocrats---for they worship techniques and obscure value conflicts in the name of being "objective". In their subjective ignorance they vest their arrogance in cloaks of objectivity and consider it to be good because it is exclusive. Such arrogant ignorance is misleading and leads the gullible into tragic situations. The wise can see that sophisticated technical education is not the solution. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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