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%IDEALISTIC PERSONAL REJECTIONS 850922
Idealistic personal rejections do not contribute to
the coherence and integrity of a community. Personal
rejections do not contribute to holding a community
together. Personal rejections are supportive of
disintegrative ideals which require violence and coercion
as instruments to be used in their service.
Once respect has been accorded to disintegrative
instruments it becomes impossible to rationalize that
respect in coherent integrative ways because
disintegrative instruments do not relate to the ideas,
ideals and members of a coherent community in a coherent
way. People who have committed themselves to the use of
disintegrative instruments continue to seek to rationalize
their commitment, and find that they can do so only in
terms of disintegrative ideals and/or absolutizing their
instrumental ideals; their disintegrative justification.
It then becomes impossible to coherently relate effects to
their causes and it is impossible to evaluate the
technologies of coercion and violence; they have become
idols worthy of worship regardless of their consequences.
Those people who are committed to the technologies of
coercion and violence are in practice idolaters unable to
make coherent evaluations of their technologies.
It is not enough to be idealistic, sincere, committed
and willing to make personal sacrifices. One may be
committed to disintegrative ideals which lead inevitably
to tragedies which are compounded by idealism, sincerity,
commitment and powerful high technologies. The
improvement of technologies is not a means to the
avoidance of tragedies occasioned by idealism, sincerity,
commitment and powerful high technologies. The
improvement of technologies is not a means to the
avoidance of tragedies occasioned by disintegrative
idealism.
It is impossible to evaluate technologies objectively
because making value judgments involve behaving non-
objectively; i.e., in self-referential ways. There is no
technology by which to avoid tragedy because tragedy
pertains making commitments to disintegrative ideals.
Technologies have to do with serving ideals already
chosen. Technocrats can not perceive their ideals as
being disintegrative ideals and so improve technologies to
serve tragic disintegrative ideals.
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