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      %TECHNOCRATIC ADDICTS TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE 880529

     Technocrats  are  addicts who  are  preoccupied  with
technical  knowledge  as  a  means to  being  in  control.
Through  analytic understanding they seek to  predict  and
understand so as to be in control.   They believe that the
world  will  be a better place through their successes  in
understanding,   predicting  and  in  gaining  control  of
processes.    They believe that because of their  superior
technical knowledge they have the  wisdom necessary to put
things right, whereas others in earlier times did not have
the ability to understand, predict and control in the ways
needed to put things right.

     Technocrats  are driven by a compulsive need to  gain
control and so are preoccupied with the technical means to
being  in control.   According to technocratic myths  they
are  great by virtue of their ability to control  much  in
very  significant and important ways.   Their self  esteem
rests upon the technical knowledge which gives them  their
superior  power to be in control in ways which others  can
not be in control.

     Technocrats are experts in narrow and limited domains
of knowledge;  they are not experts in understanding their
own  reflexive  myths  and  motivations.    They  do   not
understand   their  own  reflexive   preoccupations   with
understanding,  prediction and control as central features
of  their lives;  as technical means to hoped  for  higher
self esteem.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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