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%GROUND FOR SECURE SOCIAL REALIZATION 821218
Realities vary as regards their degree of
objectivity. Many realities exist because of individual
and social choices, both conscious and mythic. When a
society is dissatisfied with some of its social realities,
some of its members may have visions of new possible
realities, and suggest them. Members of the society may
be ill at ease with such new visions because they lack
confidence in any ground for secure social realization of
the visions. They may fear that there may be great risks
in the realization of new realities apart from a known
ground, a foundation, for the realization of the new
vision.
We may both yearn for and fear the realization of a
known new vision. The new vision may give new meaning to
lives which have become meaningless under the
control of technologies which provide both the means
and the ends upon which the lives are focused.
Technocrats may feel the meaninglessness of their
lives and yearn for new meaning, and yet fear the
realization of a vision which would direct their lives
in meaningful new directions. The technocrats may fear
that they would no longer have control of their own
lives, and that their lives might be directed by powers
which transcend themselves. Their fear originates in
part in their belief that their lives are meaningful to
the extent that they control themselves. Thus, they
are blocked from discovering meaning in dedication to
visions which transcend themselves. Their technologies
give them no grounds for any secure social realization
of any visions which transcend technocracy.
The ground for secure social realization of new
visions resides in values which are acknowledged to
transcend all technologies, all means of achieving
explicit goals which are technologically attainable.
People who would transcend their technologies and realize
non-technocratic visions must clarify, and dedicate
themselves to values which affirm values as persons and
communities which have integrity. Once they have
recognized and affirmed the values which are most
central to the personal and communal integrity, they
will have grounds for secure social realizations of new
visions.
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