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 %TECHNOCRAT COMPETENT ACCEPT COMMUNITY REJECT SELF 930507

     The  focus within a technocratic community is  rather
exclusively   upon  techniques,   technologies,    skills,
knowledge,   and  competencies.   This being the case  the
grounds for acceptance/rejection have to do with technical
skills,    knowledge  and  competencies.   Members  of   a
technocratic community are not accepted as members of  the
community apart from their technical skills, knowledge and
competencies; but rather because of them.

     Acceptance  into  the dialogue  of  the  technocratic
community is conditional.  If  the conditions for dialogue
are not met, dialogue is cut off;  the person who does not
meet  standards  is  excommunicated,   alienated from  the
community.  For  this reason technocratic communities  are
not true communities; it  is  not  safe to be true to self
and other in such communities,  for being true to self and
other is bound sooner or  later  to expose inadequacies in
technical   skills,   knowledge  and  competencies.   Thus
technocratic communities  encourage   the  development  of
secrecy, deception, misleading behaviors,  dishonesty, and
the collusive  games of mutual self deception  of  addicts
and their supportive codependents.

     Members of a technocratic community  are insecure and
tend to turn to technologies for  defensive means by which
to try to achieve security.   They  do not understand that
true security is the freedom  to  be safely vulnerable and
accepted  into   communal dialogue   without  regards   to
technical competencies, knowledge and/or skills.

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