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%TECHNOCRAT ACCEPTANCE COMPETENCY PERSONAL DIALOGUE 930430

     Technocrats tend  to accept people into  dialogue and
into  their  technocratic  community  upon  the  basis  of
specialized  competency     in    knowledge,       skills,
techniques, accomplishments,   achievements,  etc.    Such
conditional  personal  acceptance  sets the  stage  for  a
tragic   drama   in  which  technocrats  often  personally
reject each other  due to incompetency,  ignorance,   lack
of  skills,   lack of techniques, lack of accomplishments,
lack  of achievements,  and imperfections;   rather   than
accept  each  other  or non-technocrats  because  of   the
promptings  of  true  love. Specialized technocrats cannot
find  grounds within  their specialized paradigms for true
mutual  respect,  acceptance,  dialogue,  and cooperation;
for respect must,  according to their paradigm,   be based
upon competency and achievements which  are  fully  enough
understood   to   be   profoundly criticized if  they  are
imperfect.

     Personal   acceptance  is  a scarce  resource  in the
lives    of    technocrats.         Technocrats        not
experienced    true  unconditional   personal  acceptance,
love, affirmations,  and  affection.     Because  personal
acceptance   is   a    scarce  resource in  the  lives  of
technocrats,   they feel  that they must  budget  personal
acceptance  to  be used only  in  the case    of   extreme
merit;   for  those  people  who  are technocratically the
most  perfect people.   Because  they  have    experienced
so     little     unconditional     personal   acceptance,
technocrats  fear  that   they  will  run  out   of  their
limited  supply of personal acceptance,   and fear to give
away  what  little  genuine personal  acceptance they have
experienced.     Thus  technocrats  become   hypercritical
perfectionists who rarely find  grounds  for accepting and
affirming  anybody. Technocratic patterns of behavior lead
to   alienation  and  evil  relationships  which  generate
personal and communal disintegration; and so generate more
technocrats    seeking    security    through    defensive
manipulations, rather than through gifts of the freedom to
be  safely  vulnerable in relationships  characterized  by
unconditional   personal  acceptance  into  dialogue   and
community.

    There   are    many    kinds   of   technocrats:
scientific,     engineering,     political,     religious,
moralistic,  ethical,  legalistic,  medical,  educational,
militaristic,      artistic,     musical,        literary,
professional,   police,    etc.    The manifestations   of
technocracy   vary   according  to   the  specialties   of
the  technocrats,   but there are profound similarities in
their patterns of behavior  regardless  of specialty.

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