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%BALANCE VS SPECIALIZATION 780420
In our technocratic society the awards, rewards,
prices, recognition, praise, promotions, etc, are usually
earned by excellence in specialization; rather than by
excellence in living a balanced life. Excellence is
equated with specialization, exclusivity, elitism. Rarely
do people in our technocratic society receive
institutional encouragement to wisely balance competing
claims upon their time, energy, imagination, money, and
other resources. Specialized interest groups compete in
promoting each individual's progressive specialization
toward excellence in some narrow way. Generalized
interest groups are virtually never organized to promote
holism on the part of citizens in our technocratic
society. Any citizens who sought to form a generalized
interest group would be regarded as traitors to the
virtues of our technocratic society. The formation of
generalized interest groups is virtually unthinkable---and
the few who dare to think of the possibility will most
likely fear to let their thoughts lead them to public
action.
Our specialized groups tend to regard their specialty
as the means to fulfillment, redemption, salvation,
success, happiness, growth, etc. They tend to view life
as a battle, contest, or war---between conflicting claims
regarding the best technique to be followed---rather than
to view life as an art of weaving together the strands of
a balanced life, a life in which diverse individuals
receive their fulfillment through the integration of
diverse ways of perceiving, comparing, understanding,
communicating, deciding, cooperating, and acting. Our
tendency towards specialization promotes a feedback loop
which accentuates our tendency towards specialization---
until we become so specialized that we cannot communicate
with each other---and our geographic assemblages of people
cease to be communities. Specialization undermines
communal integrity, and thereby undermines personal
integrity.
Our technocratic society can transcend it's
absurdities only as we as individuals come to recognize
the society's absurdities, and band together for private
mutual support and encouragement through which we can
together transcend the collusions which enslave us. We as
individuals must work together to transcend our perverse
trend towards the increasing specialization which makes us
more and more vulnerable to the manipulative techniques of
those who are insensitive to us as whole beings.
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