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%MOURN DEATH PASSAGE FRIENDSHIP STAGE LIFE RELATION+930327
   %TECHNICAL GROUND PERSONAL ACCEPT REJECT MACHINE 930327

     When  we   honor  technical  grounds   for   personal
acceptance into and/or  rejection from dialogue we set the
stage for  honoring machines as being equal to and  better
than people.  Technical grounds for acceptance into and/or
rejection from  dialogue  have  to  do  with conformity of
behavior  to technical performance standards; e.g.,  moral
codes, ethical standards, taboos,  legal regulations, etc.
Technical  grounds  for acceptance into  and/or  rejection
from   community tend  to  be  objective,    quantitative,
consensual,      systematic,     dichotomous,      yes/no,
exclusive/inclusive,     computational,    binary,     and
alienative.   Technocrats usually are the managers of  the
technical  grounds  and the judicial procedures  by  which
people are accepted into and/or rejected from community.

     Accepting  technical grounds for  personal acceptance
into and rejection from community leads to identity crises
for real people who cannot compete with machines for slots
of   acceptability.    Machines  are  accepted   as   more
acceptable than are read people; and people are put out of
work by  machines.    People come to wonder how  they  are
different  from  machines  when all of the  time  they are
competing to  be better  than  machines  in  order  to  be
accepted  in  place  of machines.   What ground  for  self
esteem  does  a person have if  they find that  programmed
machines   are  more  acceptable  than  they   are?     In
desperation many people accept  the  assumption that  they
need to be re-programmed before they can be acceptable; so
they  seek one kind of fix,  or another kind of fix to  be
reprogrammed  into an  acceptable personal-machine.   They
become addicted to the search for fixes.  They do not find
that satisfactory and in frustration and anger they become
violent.  They turn to  machines to express their violence
with guns and bombs; they  become  like the machines which
they  use  in  their  violations of personal and  communal
integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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