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 %TECHNOLOGY EVALUATE EVIL FIXATION ADDICTION ABUSE 901027

     No   particular  technique or  technology  is  either
good    or   evil.   The  evaluation  of  techniques   and
technologies is not a  technical process.   The process of
wisely  assessing  the  use or abuse of a technique  or  a
technology  is  a  reflexive process,     which   by   its
essential  nature  cannot   be objective.

     Where   a  technique or technology leads  to  depends
just   as  much  upon  the  approach  of  the  users   and
beneficiaries,   as upon  the details of the technique  or
technology.     Whether  the  use  of  the  technique   or
technology  leads  to tragedy or integrative   fulfillment
depends  upon  the nature  of  the  relationship   between
the    users/beneficiaries    and     the   technique   or
technology;   not merely upon technical details which  are
objective   and   independent  of   the    users    and/or
beneficiaries.

     There    is    danger  in  people   approaching   any
technique  or technology  as a fix,   in the manner of  an
addict   who   is  compulsively   fixated   upon   finding
some    manipulative technique  or technology by which  to
fix  what   the  addict feels   is  wrong   with   her/his
being   who   she/he    is.  Techniques  and  technologies
cannot fix dysfunctional human lives/relationships;     no
matter    how    sophisticated,   informed,    scientific,
resource-consumptive, or modern may be  the techniques and
technologies.    The addictive manner of  approach  to   a
technique   or   technology   will   often  occasion   the
use/abuse  of  it,   and  lead  to   tragic consequences.

     The  consequences  of  the  use  of  techniques   and
technologies  do   not originate within the nature of  the
techniques  and technologies.   The  consequences  of  the
human   use  of techniques  and  technologies  cannot   be
predicted    and  controlled  on  the  basis of  technical
knowledge    of   the  techniques,    technologies,    and
objective  laws of  nature.  The  consequences  are rooted
in the nature of the  humans who  approach the  techniques
and  technologies,    as  much  as  in    the    technical
details   of  the   techniques   and technologies.     The
behaviors  of  humans who use and  abuse  techniques   and
technologies  cannot be fully  understood,  predicted   or
controlled;     so  it  follows   that   the  consequences
of  their  use of techniques and  technologies cannot   be
fully understood,  predicted or controlled.   To presume a
higher level of understanding,  prediction and/or  control
than   is   possible,    is  likely to  be   part   of   a
collusive game of technocratic mutual self deception.

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