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Technocrats can not accept, affirm, or enjoy
mysteries. The compulsively pious can not permit others
to approach mysteries in analytic I-It modalities, as if
essential mysteries were in need of the protection offered
by the pious. Technocrats do not admit that there are any
essential mysteries. The compulsively pious do not admit
that the essential mysteries are more powerful than they
are---so they claim the essential mysteries are in need of
protection by the pious. Both the technocrats and the
compulsively pious deny the transcendent power of the
essential mysteries of life, but they differ in the manner
of their denial. In fact, many of the compulsively pious
people are religious technocrats, and many of the
technocrats are compulsively pious worshipers of science
and technology.
A subculture may be characterized by the mysteries
which it accepts, affirms, and enjoys. Some subcultures
accept, affirm, and enjoy many mysteries---and differ
according to which ones they so treat. Other subcultures
accept, affirm, and enjoy virtually no mysteries---and
differ according to the manners in which they deny,
ignore, repress, fear, obscure, and attempt to gain
control over essential mysteries. Yet other cultures
mystify realities which are not mysterious in any
essential ways, and they differ from each other according
to the choices of the realities which are mystified and
the manner of mystification. Thus each subculture may be
characterized by its response to mysteries.
Cultures which differ about mysteries will have
difficulties being in dialogue about their ultimate
concerns. Mysteries pertain to meaning in life and so to
ultimate concerns. Cultures which are characterized by
collusive denials of essential mysteries can not be in
dialogue with other cultures about the mysteries which
they deny. Cultures which mystify realities which are not
essentially mysterious can not be in dialogue with
cultures which regard such realities as essentially non-
mysterious. Often break-downs in dialogue can be traced
to differences in the mysteries of different cultures.
The technology of each culture is a working out in
practice of the implications of the way the culture deals
with mystery. The history of science and technology is
thus woven into the history of the culture's coping with
mystery.
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