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          %COLLUSIONS ADDICTIVE TOOLS OF ALIENATION 871217

     Good respectable people often use manipulative  tools
to  try  to control other people,  so  that   others  will
behave  properly  according  to respectable  expectations,
moral codes, ethical systems, and legalistic requirements.
Such   good   people   are  often  playing  the  role   of
paternalistic  co-dependents  who  seek to take good  care
of addictive children  whose dependency the  co-dependents
desperately need.

     Good   people's   manipulative  tools   include  such
things as  guilt,    shame,   conscience,   perfectionism,
competitiveness,  insecurity,    rejection,    alienation,
excommunication, shunning, dis-fellowship,  etc.

     When  in  the intended service of good purposes  such
alienative  tools  are  used  to  get  people  to   behave
properly,  the tools come to  dominate the process, rather
than    serve   any integrative  purpose.      Such  tools
are essentially   alienative  in  effect,  regardless   of
the intended purpose.   Such alienative tools can  not  be
used  effectively  to promote both  personal  and communal
integrity.  Technicians  who choose alienative tools to do
their job are idolatrous  technocrats  who  put the use of
their   tools  ahead  of   the  purpose  for  which   they
ostensibly choose their tools.

     Highly specialized people tend  to become technocrats
due   to   the   narrowness  of  their   vision.     Their
"educational"  programs do not educe integrative insights;
rather,   they  indoctrinate narrow   perspectives  of the
nature     of     reality,      and  of   possible   human
participation    in   reality.     Specialization    which
alienates  the   specialist from   the majority of  people
creates  technocrats  who  are incompetent  to  serve  the
majority  of people,    no  matter how  competent they are
in  their  narrow  specialty.     Such specialists are not
competent   to   serve  as teachers   and  professors   in
genuine educational systems,  no matter how competent they
may be in their research and knowledge systems.

     Liberating   educators   teach  their   students   to
recognize   the   tragic  consequences  of    technocrats'
ideals,  values and behaviors for what they are.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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