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  %MAKING THINGS BETTER THROUGH PRACTICAL TECHNICAL 080217
 %PROBLEM SOLVING USEFUL SOLUTIONS ADDICTIONS DRUGS 080217
%UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES POWERFUL GOOD TECHNOLOGIES 080217
%UNANTICIPATED RESULTS SINCERE EFFORT IMPROVE LIVES 080217
 %ELIMINATE SUFFERING EVIL DEVILS MISBEHAVIOR FOOLS 080217
%IMPROPER RELATIONSHIPS NONCONFORMITY CRIMINAL ACTS 080217

Techniques  used for Solving  Practical-Technical-Problems
are often  Very-Useful  and  Serve-To-Lighten-the-Load-of-
Work Bearing-Down-on-Humans.

The Dilemma-of-Technologies is that Useful-techniques also
undermine  the health of intimate humane relationships ---
in  ways  that  are  Not-Apparent  to  those  involved  in
enjoying the benefits of the Technologies.

 1.  Fast-Modes-of-Transportation have facilitated  visits
between people who otherwise could never visit each other.
Trains, buses, cars and airplanes have also played central
roles  in  FRAGMENTING Nuclear-Families --- as individuals
have  become  free  to  travel great distances  to  go  to
better:  schools,   jobs,  vacations,  and explorations of
distant  lands.    Intimate-Personal-Dialogue  has  become
relatively less valued.

 2.  Fast-Modes-of-Communication have facilitated  virtual
visits  to  distant  members  of  families.    Radios, TV,
Telephones, Cell-Phones, and The-Internet have also become
DISTRACTIONS  from  personal conversations between  people
meeting  in  more direct and  intimate  ways.    Intimate-
Personal-Dialogue has become relatively less valued.

 3.  The discoveries of coal,  oil and Nuclear-Energy have
lifted  many  burdens from the backs of  manual  laborers.
They  have also played central  roles  in  the  alienative
effects of increasing the distances between attackers and
victims of attacks --- due to the uses of:  guns, cannons,
land-mines, military-air-planes,  bombs, bigger-war-ships,
Intercontinental-Ballistic-Missiles,    Atomic-Bombs,  and
Hydrogen-Bombs.    The  attackers  are  left   relatively-
isolated-and-alienated  from the inhumane-consequences  of
their attacks --- making reconciliation impossible.

 4.  The development of monetary-systems, banking, and the
use  of  money  as an intermediary valued  medium  in  the
exchange  of  Goods-and-Services ---   has  provided  many
conveniences --- while most-often-separating the providers
from the  people who ultimately benefit from enjoying  the
Goods-and-Services.

 5.  The   existence  of  monetary-systems,   banking  and
economic  systems  has  facilitated:    charging-interest,
concentrations-of-wealth, diverse-concentrations-of-power,
economic-coalitions, domination-systems, and systemic ways
of depriving the poor to the advantage of the wealthy.

 6.  The   existence  of  monetary-systems,   banking  and
economic-systems  has  facilitated:taxation  and  economic
ways of punishing conquered people ---  and depersonalized
the  processes  of sharing/exchanging wealth ---   and  of
thinking about those processes in Economics-as-the-Dismal-
Science which Quite-Often-Undermines-Communities and their
Integrities.

 7.  The  evolution  of modern sciences has resolved  many
technical  problems  as suggested above and  provided  the
possibilities of Preventive-Medicine,   Curative-Medicine,
and Comprehensive-Health-Care; but  combinations  of   the
above has generated the Dysfunctional-Patterns of Medical-
Insurance    found   in   the   Most-Powerful-Nation   and
Economically-Dominant-Nation  is Human-History;   offering
its  own citizens poorer communal Health-Care than enjoyed
by  most other Truly-Modern-Nations.

 8.  The  inventions of the  Printing-Press and  digitized
storage and transmission and processing of vast quantities
of   information   --- have   advanced   many   forms   of
communication and  information-retrieval;   but  have  not
brought an  end to conflicts between  different  religious
interpretations  of Sacred-Texts and the  Separated-People
who believe that they Have-Hold of Absolute-Truth.

Are Things-Better In-the-Absence of:   Honesty,  Humility,
Intimate-Open-Dialogue,  Touching,  Compassion,  Sympathy,
Empathy, Hospitality, Generosity, Mutuality, Balance, Etc?

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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