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  %TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE ADDICTION IDOLATRY NEED 890503

     Often genuine human needs have not been met for  lack
of resources and/or technology. With improvements in human
knowledge  and technology many such needs can now be  met.
There  is a natural feeling that such technologies  should
be taken advantage of, in order to meet human needs. Often
this   feeling  gets  extended  to  a  feeling   that   as
technologies  develop  they should be taken  advantage  of
without  particular  attention being given to  what  human
desires  or real needs would be met by taking advantage of
the   technologies   and  exhausting   available   limited
resources.

     To   avoid  the  addictions  of  technocrats  it   is
important that technical students be educated so that they
can  perceive  the dynamics of the process of  becoming  a
technocrat.  The dynamics of the technological  imperative
need  to be understood and transcended,  else there  is  a
strong  tendency for highly competent people to succumb to
the  addictions  of technocrats who do not  deal  honestly
with   the  powers  &  limitations  of  their   knowledge,
techniques, and resources.

     Healthy   affirmations  of  techniques  are   clearly
associated with honest consideration of what are the  real
basic  human needs.  Affirmations of techniques which  are
not clearly associated with consideration of what are  the
real  basic human needs are affirmations which need to  be
critically  examined  to  see if they are  expressions  of
technocratic  idolatry.   Care  needs to be  taken  to  be
assured that such affirmations do not lead to personal and
communal disintegration.

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