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%TECHNOCRAT OBJECT VIOLATE FREE SPEECH HONEST TRUTH 910405

     Technocrats  are  people  who  are  addicted  to  the
paradigm  of  the  use of technology to achieve  fixes  in
situations  which  are  dilemmas  rather  than   technical
problems.

     As  all  addicts  do,   technocrats  use   dishonesty
as  a technique to hide the nature of their addiction.

     As  all addicts  do,   technocrats seek to manipulate
other  people   so that they are not free to  speak  their
mind   or  publish  their  perceptions of  the  nature  of
technocratic fixation   and  services.    Technocrats   do
violence    to  constitutional  rights,    to  freedom  of
assembly,   speech, publication and petition.  Technocrats
find  clever ways to undermine  those freedoms  in  hidden
ways,    which  cannot  be  adjudicated  in  formal  court
proceedings.

     Technocrats  welcome  criticism which remains  within
the  boundaries    of    their   technocratic    paradigm;
e.g.,   criticisms   as  to which  technology  will   most
efficiently solve  a dilemma which they have defined to be
a technical problem.   They welcome discussion as to which
technocrat  should  be hired to be the expert who is  paid
to solve the dilemma.  They do not welcome exposure of the
dishonesty  of  their   definition  of  a  problem  in   a
situation which is not a technical problem,  but rather is
a human dilemma.

     Technocrats  do   not   welcome  exposure   of  their
dishonesty,   o   their   lack of integrity,   or  of  the
incoherence of  their paradigm.

     Technocrats     are     addicts    who    demonstrate
significant     technical    skills,      knowledge    and
sophistication;  but  are ignorant  and/or dishonest about
the  limitations  of   their  skills,     knowledge    and
sophistication.    They   present themselves  as  able  to
achieve  for  themselves  and   others  that   which    is
impossible  to   achieve  through   technical  procedures.
Such   presentations  are  not  made  directly;   but   by
indirection.    They subtly lead others to expect more  of
the  technical  procedures  than  is  wise  to  expect  of
technical procedures.

     Technocrats,  like all addicts,   generate  confusion
about th possibilities  of  the  use of  fixes.    Things,
people, relationships,      procedures,      possibilities
and impossibilities  are fused together in confusion,   so
that  it  is  impossible to tell  the  difference  between
techniques  for   solving  technical problems,   and  wise
responses   to  human  dilemmas  which  do  not  call  for
technical solutions.

     Technological   assessment   which  is  carried   out
by   technocrats    serve  the   dishonest   purposes   of
technocrats.  It is folly to hire technocrats to carry out
technological  assessments   of  the  relative  merits  of
various  proposed technical  procedures.   Because  of the
nature   of   their system of beliefs,    their  paradigm,
they  cannot  be  honest  about  the  limitations  of  all
technical procedures,  and so they  tend to focus upon the
relative  merits  in  their eyes  of  celebrating  various
technical procedures without regard for the context of the
celebration,    who will pay for  it,  or who will benefit
from the technocratic celebration, and who will suffer.

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