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%BELIEF DIFFERENCE DILEMMA PROBLEM ADDICT TECHNIQUE 910929

     If  we  believe  that  the only way  we  can  make  a
difference  i a situation is by our technical response  to
the  situation,   then   when we cannot do anything  in  a
technical  manner   to make  a  difference,    we  believe
that we  cannot  make  a difference  in  any way.  Thus we
come  to  believe  that  we cannot do anything  about  our
attitudes,  beliefs,  thoughts,  perceptions  and  how  we
spend  our  time  in  relation  to problems  and  dilemmas
where we are technically  impotent.  In   such  situations
the   difference   between   technical  impotence,     and
failing/refusing   to desire  to  make  a  difference---is
an   obscure  difference,    if  it  is  a  difference  at
all.

     We   can   desire to make a difference and  will   to
make   a  difference  only to the extent that  we  believe
that  we  can make  a  difference.    We  may  avoid   the
difficulties   of  conflict   among possibilities  in  the
midst of dilemmas and problems  by believing that all that
we  can  do  to  make  a difference  is   dependent   upon
what  are  the   possible TECHNICAL  responses  over which
we  can  have  significant control.    Thus  limiting  our
attention to  such  technical responses reduces our burden
of responsibility,   and so we respond  to other people in
purely  technical ways,   and we become  technocrats   who
are  unresponsive   to   people  as  people,    and  whose
identity is defined purely by technical considerations.

     Technocrats  do  not  believe that they  can  make  a
difference in any but technical ways;  so they do not  pay
attention    to   the    ways   in   which   non-technical
relationships define  who they  are and what kinds of non-
technical  powers they have to  use  in  responding to the
situations,     problems  and dilemmas  of  their   lives.
They  do  not  seek  to  make  a difference  in  how  they
approach other people,  whom  they approach,  and how they
enter  into and depart from personal relationships   which
conceive  their  identity.     Thus technocrats live lives
which are dominated by  addictions,  codependencies    and
collusive   games   of  mutual   self  manipulation    and
mutual   self    deception.     Technical  responses   are
manipulative.    Technical  responses   do  not  lead   to
healthy  personal  relationships  if  the   responses  are
compulsively  technical  in ways  which  exclude   healthy
considerations    of   the   nature   and   dynamics    of
healthy/diseased relationships.

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