This is http://www.essayz.com/a9112232.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %OBJECT UNDERSTAND PREDICT CONTROL MOTIVE RELATION 911223 The consequences of our decisions and actions depend upon WHICH technologies we try to use, HOW we try to use our technologies, and WHY we use our technologies in our efforts to control our lives and relationships. The WHICH and the HOW of our technologies are more evident to technocrats than the WHY of our technologies. To technocrats consequences evidently flow from objective realities, events and relationships; but not from reflexive realities, events and relationships. Technocrats ignore and are ignorant of reflexive realities, events and relationships. The WHICH and the HOW of our technologies pertain most clearly to objective realities, events and relationships. The WHY of our technological uses pertains most clearly to reflexive realities, events and relationships. Yet they are unavoidably inter-connected. People's motivations depend critically upon HOW they are affected by the techniques/technologies WHICH are used by others in efforts to achieve control. WHICH techniques/technologies we use, and HOW we use them on each other, profoundly affects the extent and quality of our inter-personal relationships with each other. We cannot control the development of our inter- personal reflexive relationships with each other; no matter WHICH technologies we use, and HOW we try to use them. Thus the consequences of our decisions and actions in regards to our attempts to use technologies/techniques cannot be scientifically understood, predicted or controlled; for the personal consequences in our personal relationships are reflexive realities, not objective scientific realities. We cannot objectively understand, predict or control our reflexive realities, events or relationships. We are dishonest and disintegrating when we pretend otherwise. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================