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  %BELIEVE COMMITMENT MINIMIZE THREAT MISUNDERSTAND+940714
    %VIOLENCE COERCION DECEPTION DISHONESTY CONTROL+940714
    %CONFUSION IGNORANCE REPRESSION ALIENATION EVIL+940714
       %FEAR ANXIETY CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRUST RISK 940714

     It is helpful to work to make credible commitments to
minimize:  threats,  misunderstanding, violence, coercion,
deception,  dishonesty,  controls,   confusion, ignorance,
repression,   alienation,  evil,  fear,  guilt,  shame and
anxiety.

     People   who   make  credible  commitments  to   such
minimization  cannot  maintain the credibility   of  their
commitments,  so long as they use any of the  tools  which
they have committed themselves to minimize the use of.

     To  be  credible  people,  those  who  have committed
themselves  to minimize the alienative uses of  particular
tools  must themselves avoid the alienative use  of  those
tools.    Use  of alienative tools in efforts  to  prevent
other people from using alienative tools is not a credible
way to work to minimize the use of alienative tools.

     When they are used  as manipulative  tools---threats,
misunderstanding,     violence,    coercion,    deception,
dishonesty,   controls, confusion,  ignorance, repression,
alienation, evil,  fear, guilt, shame, and anxiety are all
alienative tools.    They cannot be used with integrity in
efforts to minimize their use.   People who use alienative
tools  in  efforts to minimize their use have not  made  a
credible  commitment to  minimize their use, and so do not
merit trust.   People who are not trustworthy cannot  work
to minimize the use of alienative tools.

     Technocrats are more preoccupied with the celebration
and   use  of  technologies,  than  with   minimizing  the
alienative use of tools.  Alienation is not a significant,
conscious concern to technocrats because alienation is not
an   objective  reality.    Yet,   technocrats  will   use
alienation as a manipulative tool.   Because of the nature
of their primary concerns and training, technocrats cannot
be  trusted  to  work to minimize the  alienative  use  of
technologies,   techniques and technocrats.   They do  not
elicit  trust in the midst of conflict, and so cannot work
effectively to resolve conflicts.

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