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%MANIPULATIVE TECHNOCRATIC EXCELLENCE SUPERIOR SELF+990212
%COERCIVE PEOPLE MEANS ENDS CONTENTIOUS CONFLICT+990212
%TECHNOCRATIC COERCION VIOLENCE ADDICTION SIN EVIL+990212
%WAR TERRORISTS VIOLENCE PEACEMAKER RESOLUTIONS GOD+990212
%COMPETE EFFORTS PROVE BETTER SUPERIOR SELF OTHERS+990212
%UNBALANCED IDEALS VALUES GOALS PRINCIPLE INTEGRITY 990212
Excellence and superiority are sometimes worthy of
respect and support --- but not always. Neither
excellence nor superiority is worthy of respect or support
--- when they pertain to manipulative/coercive uses of
logic, reason, or scriptures.
Some people are compulsively preoccupied with
scriptures, reasoning and logic --- used as tools in
debates over issues of law, order and control. Such
people are dangerous. Beware of their excellent skills
--- when they are used in the coercive manipulation of
people. Such technocratic behavior leads to the
disintegration of people and communities.
Some people are skilled in the use of objective tools
which are manipulated to achieve their chosen goals ---
and often such objective manipulative skills merit
respect and support. Yet skillful use of people who
are treated as tools --- is skillful use which merits
no respect or support. Both personal and communal
integrity are sacrificed when people are used as tools in
the manipulative hands of depersonalized technocrats.
Technocratic excellence is no virtue when it is an
expression of people's efforts to prove that they are
better than other people.
Any prudent consideration of the above issues entails
careful attention to the kinds of motivations which
enliven the development and use of excellence in regards
to manipulative skills. Among such motivations may
those be related to:
1. Fear, anxiety, insecurity, alienation, greed,
etc.
2. Self-centered: pride, preoccupations, and
addictions.
3. Placing exclusively high value upon law, order,
disciplines, logic, reasoning, systems, formalities and
controls.
4. Immaturity in regards to intimacy and sexuality.
5. Preoccupations with institutionalized religion
and institutionalized confessions, commandments,
doctrines, laws, spirituality, procedures, prescriptions,
proscriptions, and taboos.
6. Unbalanced consideration of the certainties of
the past relative to the possibilities of the future.
7. Unbalanced ideals, values, principles, and goals.
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