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%OBJECTIVE DEPERSONALIZATION TECHNIQUES 790326
Humans are more manageable if they are first
depersonalized. Real persons are not manageable; hey have
minds of their own, ask embarrassing questions, take
initiatives, challenge authority figures, and in general
mess up carefully planned systematic procedures.
Institutions charged with the management of large numbers
of humans can not operate efficiently if they permit many
real persons to exist within the institutions. To be
effective such institutions must devise techniques to make
humans more manageable and so make the whole institutional
system more efficient and productive. To be reliable such
techniques should be objectively demonstrable and amenable
to repeated usage. They tend to be techniques of
depersonalization.
Educational institutions are well suited to
depersonalization---to the extent that they tend toward:
high standards, elitism, exclusivity, specialization,
rationalization, scientific analysis, objectivity,
technology and intimately related foci of concern ---
especially in some concentrated combinations. The process
of fulfilling institutional goals which are affirmed by
highly responsible citizens may involve the
depersonalization of the students involved. Such
depersonalized students are more susceptible to management
by people who have the conviction that they know better
than anybody else what should be done, by whom, when, and
for what reasons. The motivation of such managers may be
benevolent, innocent, naive, malicious, selfish, self-
less, etc. How readily they are able to carry out their
program of management of people's energies, creativity,
motivations, desires, etc.---will depend upon how
thoroughly depersonalized the people are.
Educational institutions are well suited to calling
into question the basic presuppositions of humans who are
oriented towards personal realities, values, priorities,
perspectives, and relationships. Once the cognitive
processes have been depersonalized in intellectual
endeavors---other processes can more easily be
depersonalized. Thus intellectual cognitive programs can
lay the way for the development of dictatorships of
various forms---and do so for respectable reasons.
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