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%NARROW SPECIALIZED UNBALANCED ALIENATED TECHNOCRAT 030725
   %PREOCCUPIED MANIPULATIVE TECHNIQUE TECHNOLOGIES 030725
  %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRATIONS INTEGRITIES NEEDS 030725
%WHOLE PEOPLE DISEASED SIMPLE COMPLEX PATTERNS EVIL 030725
%INTIMATE ALIENATIVE RELATIONSHIP BALANCE MUTUALITY 030725
%COOPERATION HONEST DIALOGUE DOMINANCE CONTROL GOOD 030725

     Technocrats are people who are far more focused  upon
their manipulative techniques and  technologies  ---  than
they  are focused upon balanced/mutual  interest  in whole
other people and their personal relationships; i.e.,  they
focus upon unilateral technical achievements,  rather than
upon  facilitating  and  promoting  diverse  personal  and
communal integrations and integrities.

     Technocrats  see  no  good reasons,   or  need,   for
balanced/mutual  considerations with other people as whole
beings --- within complex patterns of healthy personal and
communal  relationships.   Simple minded dominance is  the
central concept in the lives of technocrats;  not anything
so  complicated  as balance,  mutuality,   cooperation  or
honest dialogue.

     Technocrats  see no problem with the tragedies  which
flow   from  excommunications,   alienations  and  broken-
dialogue.   Listening carefully to different people is not
part  of  the  life-styles  of  technocrats  or  of  their
devoted disciples.

     Technocrats  are  NOT likely to give much,   if  any,
consideration   to   the  tragic  human  costs  of   their
domineering/alienative life-styles.    They see such costs
as  irrelevant;  i.e.,  as not worthy of proper  technical
considerations  or  adjustments in their  existing  plans,
attitudes  or assumptions.   They are not about to  change
their   domineering/alienative  life-styles   because   of
anything so irrelevant to them as alienation.

     Relatively  early in my growing awareness of the life
-styles of "technocrats" I tended to criticize physicists,
my  own kind,  to be on the safe side.   Repeatedly  other
scholars  would comment,  yes,  but what you  are  talking
about  is not limited to just physicists.    Such comments
came from people who had focused upon literature,   music,
art,   politics,  medicine,  etc.    Once when I  had  the
opportunity I approached a world famous ballet dancer  who
had just made a presentation to a college audience and was
available  afterward  for  conversation.     With  only  a
minimal  explanation  of what I meant by  "technocrat"   I
asked if  "technocrats" were present among ballet dancers.
Instantly  he motioned to those near  to him to move away,
as he wanted to give a  demonstration.    He did a "grand"
pirouette;  and commented, "Technically perfect,  but with
no emotion".

     Technocrats  can be found among musicians,   artists,
theologians,    religious   leaders,   poets,    teachers,
ethicists,    mediators,   etc.    No human discipline  is
immune  to  the  dis-ease of technocrats;   not  even  the
discipline  of  seeking  to  transcend  specialized  human
disciplines!

     While there may be a significant correlation  between
people   who  are  "technocratic"   and  people  who   are
"domineering";    it  is  not  safe  to  assume  that  the
correlation is quite high.    We need to discern what kind
of  person each individual is by observing their  patterns
of behaviors;  and then respond  to their  own patterns of
behaviors,  not  to  a label which we or anybody else  has
pasted on them.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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