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 %TECHNOCRATIC GOAL RETURN TO FULFILL ADDICT HEAVEN 890220

     To  the  technocrat  it  is  impossible  to   achieve
reflexive  goals of change which have not been  conceived.
The   technocrat  is  preoccupied  with   techniques   for
achieving goals which the technocrat can conceive ahead of
time.   This  means that the technocrat's goal must be  to
return to recreate previous experiences, or to fulfill the
possibilities of technologies at hand.

     It is possible to recreate technological achievements
which  have been fulfilled in the past.  It is possible to
do  so with new technological sophistications.  Technology
breeds  new  technologies and the desire  to  fulfill  the
possibilities of the new technologies. Technocrats achieve
their  fulfillment in the creation of and  fulfillment  of
the possibilities of new technologies.  Thus  technologies
become tragic leaders of communities.

     It   is   not  possible  to  re-achieve   the   human
fulfillment  of  an intimate personal relationship.   Real
human  fulfillment  is not a technical achievement.   Real
human  fulfillment is accepted as an unexpected free  gift
in unique moments of personal and communal integrity. Real
human  fulfillment is not achieved by techniques  designed
to reach known goals.  The recreation of the circumstances
of  some  real human fulfillment does not offer  the  same
fulfillment as did the original gift.  The techniques used
in  trying to recreate the circumstances of previous  real
human  fulfillment do not recreate the original real human
fulfillment.

     Human  salvation is not a matter  of  techniques  and
technologies  over  which technocrats  can  have  control.
Human salvation is not for sale by people who have control
over  it.  People cannot be in control of human salvation.
Human salvation is not achieved, it is accepted when it is
offered, on its own terms; or it is not known.

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