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     When  people  do  not know how to affirm each other's
needs  apart  from providing for meeting such needs---they
tend  to  engage  in  resource  consumptive  behavior   in
attempts  to satisfy expressions of needs which need to be
affirmed.   We  do  not  need  to have all  of  our  needs
fulfilled  through  resource consumptive  behavior,   even
though we may need to have most (if not all)  of our needs
affirmed by  close friends who can enjoy sharing awareness
of felt needs. When people  do not know how to affirm each
other  by affirming/sharing each other's felt needs,  they
will  tend to compensate through  efforts  to provide  for
meeting all felt needs---no  matter  how  unreasonable and
resource consumptive such efforts may be.   They will tend
to seek improved techniques for satisfying needs,   rather
than  seek ways  to enjoy the sharing of felt needs in the
absence  of reasonable  ways  to satisfy the  felt  needs.
Thus felt needs  may motivate technocrats toward extremely
resource  consumptive behavior in blind efforts to  be  of
service in meeting human needs.  The chosen techniques may
themselves violate human nature---quite  apart from  doing
violence  to  ecosystems and limited supplies  of  natural
resources.  The good  intentions of the technocrats do not
compensate to their failure to understand human nature and
human   needs   for  need-affirmation  apart  from   need-
fulfillment.

     Trends  to  consume more and more resources each year
per capita  may in part be traced to technocratic attempts
to satisfy human needs which need to be affirmed, but need
not be satisfied in  resource  consumptive ways.  Resource
consumptive  attempts  to satisfy human needs occur in the
absence  of  an  understanding  of human nature and  human
needs   for  affirmation,   and  tend  to   leave   people
unsatisfied---thus they so motivate  intensified  resource
consumptive efforts to satisfy the needs.  Technocrats can
not  see the futility of their way  of  trying to  satisfy
human needs,  and intensify their efforts rather than seek
better  ways  of directing them.   They are like a  novice
driver of a car  who  upon seeing the car drifting off the
road for lack of careful steering steps on the accelerator
to  try  harder  to  do a good  job  of  driving---thereby
consuming   more  fuel  in  a  futile  effort---when  more
attention to direction was what what was needed.

                                                                                                                               
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