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    %LIMITS OF TECHNIQUE SCIENCE MANIPULATION MEANS 900118

     A  technician is not wise if the technician does  not
know the limits of technique as technique.

     The  limits of technique are more profound  than  the
limits  of  particular  techniques.   All  techniques  are
limited  in  some  similar  ways,   by  virtue  of   being
techniques.   The  wise technician recognizes  the  common
limitations  of  all  techniques,  and  does  not  glorify
technique as the means to all that is desirable.

     Technique  has to do with how to achieve  an  already
chosen  and defined goal.  Once a commitment has been made
to  achieve  a goal,  technique may provide the  means  of
achieving  the  defined goal.  However,  technique  cannot
guarantee that the achievement of the technically  defined
goal will be as meaningful and satisfying as anticipated.

     In  the process of technically defining a goal it  is
likely that the question of personal meaning, satisfaction
and  significance  will be eliminated from  consideration;
because techniques cannot guarantee meaning, satisfaction,
significance,   etc.   All techniques deal with  technical
considerations;   but  not  with  meaning,   satisfaction,
significance, redemption, salvation, etc.

     Techniques which presume to transcend the limitations
of  technique  are  dishonest,  and lead to  personal  and
communal   disintegration.    People  who   are   likewise
presumptuous  are  thereby technocrats,  even if they  are
technically  incompetent.  Technocrats are people who  put
their  trust in techniques and glorify techniques as means
to   gaining  control  over  realities  which  cannot   be
controlled.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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