This is http://www.essayz.com/a8901051.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DESIRE CONTROL OTHER ACHIEVE SATISFY TECHNIQUE 890105 The desire to be in control to achieve satisfaction leads to disintegrative manipulation of people. The disintegrative use of technologies flows from the desire to achieve satisfaction through control. Misleading non-technical assumptions are often grounded in the belief that personal satisfaction can be achieved through the exercise of unilateral control of some kind. People often want to have control of what rewards they may receive for their achievements, how others perceive them, what others think of them, how others feel towards them, etc. Technocrats propose ways in which their followers can be in control of their own salvation, redemption, acceptance, etc. They offer technical procedures, rituals, rules, etc. to provide control over the process of salvation, redemption, acceptance, etc. Such technocratic ways to try to achieve salvation, redemption, acceptance, etc. usually lead people towards personal and communal disintegration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================