This-essay is a7807204.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
==========================================================
%TECHNICAL PLEASURE 780720
Technical people often tend towards deriving pleasure
only from technical activities and accomplishments. Awe
may be elicited by particularly sophisticated equipment
and creations of man. Wonder may be occasioned by the
artistic accomplishments of a creative technical person. A
sense of satisfaction and fulfillment may come upon the
attainment of a technical goal. Immediate pleasure may be
deferred in the interests of attaining a long-term goal,
but the ultimate pleasure is a strong motivating factor.
Technical people often gain pleasure by fitting in
well into a comprehensive plan or system. They enjoy the
sight of a smoothly functioning machine and enjoy the
sight of a corporate venture in which each participant
does well the assigned job. A corporate machine which
efficiently moves towards a well defined goal is a source
of pleasure to many technical people. They will sacrifice
a great deal to advance such a venture. Their fulfillment
may come in the fulfillment of the purpose of the machine.
Some technical people gain pleasure from the
operations of a formal structure for the patterning of
human activity. They like to work to organize corporate
behavior so that society works smoothly according to some
carefully developed plan. They enjoy seeing such a plan
carried out on schedule. It fulfills their feeling for a
sense of order. They may devise carefully worked out
ethical, moral, or legal systems to promote human
welfare---and work diligently to see to it that people
conform to the behavior patterns which the system calls
for. When such a system is found to be defective, they
will work to devise an improved system, and gain pleasure
from their creative efforts.
The tragedy of technical pleasure is that usually
those who enjoy technical pleasure are relatively unaware
of non-technical pleasure and unfamiliar with people who
enjoy non-technical pleasures. Communication between such
different people tends to be minimal and the technical
people's efforts to be of service to the non-technical
people tend to be tragically counter-productive efforts
which create as many new problems as they solve.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty
(On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)
==========================================================
Lines beginning with a percent sign are KEYWORDS for use
in ESSAY-System Searches. Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ = a means 99,
@ = b means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.
Links to date-adjacent essays are near page top & bottom.
Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER
near the top or bottom of a web page of essayz.com
1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com
2. Find brief-essays via keywords
3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION
4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK
5. GoTo Action & Information Center
6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month
7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts
8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE
This-essay is a7807204.htm which is available at the
web-site www.essayz.com. These 5 lines echo top lines.
Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay
By-Months By-Years By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One