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 %TECHNOCRAT REFLEXIVE VALUE IDEAL COMMUNITY RELATE 940324

     Technocrats often affirm the value of a technology as
an  objective  reality---without  acknowledging  that  the
value of the technology  is  dependent  upon the reflexive
integrity  of the relationships between the technology and
the peoples/communities which incorporate the use  of  the
technology into their lives.

     Affirmations of values are not  objective  realities;
they are reflexive realities.   Technocrats often  seek to
pretend  that  their favorite technologies are valuable in
objective  ways;  i.e.,  that their value is an  objective
reality   which   can  be  proven  in  a  scientific  way.
Compulsively objective people are in a double bind:   They
seek to affirm the ultimate value of objectivity; but they
cannot  admit  that  their  value  affirmations  are   not
objective  in  nature---because  they  seek  to  always be
objective.

     To promote  both personal and communal  integrity  we
need  to find ways to integrate  helpful  technologies  in
balanced  ways  into the lives of peoples and communities.
Technologies  tend  to be destructive in  the  absence  of
balanced   integrations  of  the  technologies  into   the
reflexive   lives   of  the  communities  in   which   the
technologies are embedded.   Alienated technocrats are not
qualified   to   promote  such  balanced  integrations  of
technologies  into the lives of the people from whom  they
as technocrats are alienated.

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