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 %TECHNOCRATIC SIGNIFICANCE MEANING IMPORTANCE LOVE 990111                                           
                                                                                                                               
     Technocrats  find  their  significance  and   meaning                                                  
within the context of technological fixes for problems and                
dilemmas ---  because  they  are not meaningfully involved                          
in truly intimate  relationships  and  communal endeavors.                     
Their  meanings  and significance  are  mediated   through                                
techniques and thus they are  preoccupied  with techniques                                                  
and the developments of foundations for new techniques.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Technocratic   attempts  to  generate    meaning  and                                                  
significance may be focused upon:                                                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     1.  The laying of the foundations for new techniques                                                  
         through scientific research.                              
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The development of new technologies in the light                                                  
         of the results of scientific research.                              
                                                                                                                               
     3.  The commercialization of newly developed                                                                              
         technologies.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     4.  The marketing of developed new technologies.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     5.  The servicing of developed technologies.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     6.  The accumulation of technological equipment and                                                  
         toys.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
     7.  The celebration of technological equipment and                                                  
         toys.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
     8.  The interpretation of the meanings and                      
         significance of technological equipment, toys                                                  
         and personnel.                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
     9.  The development of new uses and ways of      
         celebrating the utility of existing techniques,                                                  
         technologies,  equipment and toys.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     10. The regulation of techniques, technologies,                                                  
         equipment and technological toys through laws                                
         and judicial procedures.              
                                                                                                                               
     Technocratic   attempts  to  generate   meaning   and                                                  
significance fail in the absence of:                                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Personal OR communal integrity within the lives                             
         of technocrats.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The freedom to be safely vulnerable within open                             
         and honest dialogue in intimate relationships                     
         between technocrats and others.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Communal efforts to help all members of the                                                                
         community to learn from blunders, mistakes and                                                    
         tragedies.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Love which transcends: legalisms, judgmental-                                           
         ism, perfectionisms, excommunications, punish-                                                                
         ments, angers, resentments, fears and defensive-                                                                      
         ness.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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