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%TECHNOLOGICALLY MEDIATED CONCERN 790311
Jill does not feel that Jack is concerned about her.
He is always involved in technological projects. Jack
knows he is concerned about Jill and is always working
hard to do things for Jill. Jack can not imagine how Jill
could think that he is not concerned. He is doing
everything he can imagine to meet Jill's needs. What more
can Jill expect?
Jack's concerns are all mediated through his
technological interests. Jack does not know how to
demonstrate concern except through the use of techniques
of one form or another. Jack can not imagine how to
express concern except through technological behavior.
His concerns are all mediated technologically. Jack is
unaware of people who express their concerns in non-
technological ways, even though such people are physically
present to him and associate with him. Jack does not see
their non-technological ways---except as bungling
technological efforts which are unworthy of respect.
Jack and Jill live on two different planes of reality
and share in common only the line of intersection between
those planes. Each views that line in the context of
their own plane of reality, and is unaware of the context
in which the line is viewed by the other. Thus even the
meaning of that which they have in common is different due
to their different contexts. Jack's technocratic plane
and Jill's personal plane provide different contexts for
understanding the meaning of the use of techniques, and
they can not understand the meaning which each other
perceives in the use of techniques. Jack can not perceive
any concern if there is no use of technique. Jill finds
it hard to perceive any concern when techniques are
exclusive means for the expression of concern.
In a technocratic society concerns are mediated
through the use of techniques and the experiences of Jack
and Jill are typical of many couples in the society.
Technocrats can not use techniques to resolve the
misunderstandings. The people who are exclusively
personally oriented are similarly impotent. Tragedy.
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