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%MEANINGLESS PROBLEM SOLVING 810924
Technocrats are compulsively preoccupied with
meaningless problem solving. They are prone to delight in
solving impersonal problems through the use of
sophisticated impersonal techniques, and are frustrated by
the lack of personal meaning in their technical
accomplishments. Their frustration leads them to try to
do more and better of that which they know best how to do;
to solve impersonal problems through the use of
sophisticated impersonal techniques. Their value system
blinds them to the fact that their personal frustration
originates in their exclusion of personal aspects from
their lives; e.g., emotions, affection, intimacy, direct
sensual experiences, personal dialogue, etc. Their
technical exclusivity robs their technical accomplishments
of personal meaning, by excluding that which is personal
from their lives---including personal meaning. They
therefore search for the fulfillment of their emptiness in
increases in sophistication, size, and resource
consumption of technical efforts. Such accomplishments at
least can be measured and objectively reported in their
technical literature. Personal reports of the personal
meaning, if any, enjoyed in problem solving is not welcome
in their technical literature. Only objective,
quantitative reporting is welcome, for only it can be
verified by independent experimentation.
Most personal meaning is experienced in non-
problematic situations, in situations which are not
problem-solving situations. Technocrats tend to be at a
loss in non-problematic situations, for they know how to
cope only in problematic situations. For this reason
technocrats often behave in ways which turn non-
problematic situations which are full of personal
meaning---into problematic situations which are devoid of
personal meaning, but with which they know how to cope.
They then seek to achieve personal meaning in the newly
created problematic situations, and are unable to
understand in technical terms why they seem unable to
achieve the sought for personal meaning.
Technocrats need help in carefully examining their
most elementary assumptions about what is real and worthy
of human attention, and what are appropriate attitudes to
bring to human meetings with that which is chosen as being
most real. The level of satisfaction depends upon
attitudes brought to such I-It and I-Thou meetings.
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