This is http://www.essayz.com/a9403151.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.} ========================================================== %SYSTEMATIC TECHNOCRATIC LOVE CONTROL LEGALISTIC 940315 Compulsive technocrats seek to reduce every dilemma to a technical problem, and life to a systematic process. Their ideal is to specify the proper way to respond to every conceivable situation, and to be sure everybody is successful in responding to their situations in the proper systematic way. Consensus on what is proper is of ultimate importance, and so dissent in regards to what is proper is regarded as a sign of the work of the devil; dissent is a threat to the appearance of integrity in their collusive games of mutual self deception. Even suspicion regarding the possibility of dissent may be taken as evidence of dissent and so taken as evidence of the work of the devil. Technocrats do not rest comfortably in the presence of ambiguity or doubt. They prefer dichotomous clarity, certainty and conviction; whereby each issue is a question of yes or no to a forcefully put dichotomous question. Their dichotomous questions are full of subtle assumptions which must not be stated overtly or clearly; else the clarity and force of the required dichotomy would be reduced, and their collusive games of mutual self deception would be exposed. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================