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 %NON-TECHNICAL ESCAPE TRANSCEND TECHNOCRACY ADDICT 900427

     To  the technocrat who is thoroughly addicted to  the
attitudes  of the technocratic society it appears that all
meaningful questions and publications involve  mathematics
and computations.  It is easy for technocrats to feel that
if  a publication does not involve complex mathematics  it
is  not  dealing with important questions.    Technocratic
editors  of specialized scientific journals are likely  to
regard  with  disdain  all articles  which  are  submitted
without the expected amount of sophisticated  mathematics.
Such  attitudes  help to protect the  dishonest  collusive
games of the technocratic society.

     Those  who  are  not trapped in  collusive  games  of
mutual  self deception can easily see that the process  of
transcending  the  dishonesty of the games will  naturally
not  involve the compulsive use of mathematics,  and  will
often  involve  extensive  consideration  of the reflexive
inter-relationships   between   assumptions,    questions,
perceptions,     attitudes,      and    beliefs.      Such
considerations   may   be philosophical  and  theological,
they  are not mathematical in  nature.     Any attempt  to
assure   that  they   appear   to  involve    mathematical
considerations   is  dominated   by technocratic games  of
mutual self deception.

     The  perpetual  crisis in science  education  of  the
1900's  is   the  result    of    collusive    games    of
mutually     deceptive   technocrats.    The  process   of
transcending  that  perpetual crisis  will  of   necessity
involve  less  mathematics  than  the   prisoners  of   it
expect will be necessary for solving  the  pseudo-problems
which  they perceive as the essence of the  crisis.   Non-
technocrats   need  to be careful that they do  not   fall
into playing the collusive games of mutual self  deception
by  showing  uncritical respect for technical experts  who
are  dishonest about fundamental issues because  of  their
addiction to pure research.

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