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 %TECHNOCRATIC SYSTEMIC DISHONESTY VALUE IMPORTANCE 890424

     Technocrats  participate  in  a  systemic  dishonesty
which  conceals the non-objective affirmations which  they
make about the relative importance of techniques, personal
relationships, habits of mind/heart, ideals and values.

     Technocrats  pretend  to  deal  with  only  technical
matters;   i.e.,  only questions which can be resolved  by
technical   considerations.   Technocrats  avoid  dialogue
regarding  the  relative importance and meaning  of  their
techniques,  personal relationships,  habits of mind/hear,
ideals and values.

     The values,  ideals and priorities of technocrats are
revealed more by what they avoid,  than by what they focus
their  attention  upon.  There is nothing inherently  evil
about  those  things upon which  technocrats  focus  their
attention.   Evil pertains to alienation.  What is evil is
the  exclusivity of the focus of technocrats'   attention;
the  fact  that they systemically and dishonestly  exclude
certain   kinds  of  personal  relationships,   habits  of
mind/hear,   ideals  and  values from the range  of  their
attention.  The evil resides in their alienation from much
which is essential to meaningful living.

     Technocrats  are  systemically  addicted  to  certain
techniques,   and  are not willing to be honest about  the
nature of their addiction. In the absence of honesty about
their systematically narrow focus of specialization,  they
cannot  perceive  the  consequences  of  their  habits  of
mind/heart.   As objective systems analysts,  they  cannot
objectively  analyze their role in the human systems which
they dominate in alienative ways.  They are systematically
dishonest    about   their   role   in   their   reflexive
relationships,    because  they  pretend  to  be   engaged
exclusively in objective relationships.

     When  technocrats  are invited to  be  professors  in
liberal arts colleges they seduce their students to become
technocrats  and help to set the stage for their  students
to  become teachers in the public schools where they  will
in turn seduce their students into technocracy.  Thus  the
addictive society perpetuates itself by the power which is
handed to technocrats in the educational system.

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