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This-essay is a7906062.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIUM MESSAGE REAL CHILD+790606 %MAGIC LANGUAGE CULTURE COMMUNICATE 790606 Technologists presume to provide the means by which we can accomplish humane purposes. They view the means, their technologies, as value neutral. They view their means as a language of action which may be used to convey human concern and love. To them technology is a medium, a language, of communication. They do not perceive technology as a message. Each language is suited to only some communications, and ill suited to many other communications. Music is well suited to communicating emotions and affective perceptions, but ill suited to communicating quantitative relationships. Mathematics is well suited to communicating quantitative relationships, but ill suited to communicating emotions and affective perceptions. Technology is well suited to communicating objective, systematic, manipulative, and goal-oriented concerns; but is ill suited to communicating subjective, spontaneous, and very intimate personal affections. When a particular language becomes the dominant language of a culture, the culture becomes dominated by the language and its limitations. Members of the culture become unable to communicate any messages which the dominant language is ill suited to communicate. Such messages and perceptions slowly become unknown mysteries---as a language becomes dominant in a culture. The medium for communication of messages becomes the dominant message of the culture. A technocratic society is one in which the technology of the society has become the dominant medium of communication---people say they care technocratically. They see all problems and dilemmas as technological problems. Communication problems and dilemmas are solved by improved technologies, etc. In such a society non- technocratic languages are dominated by the technocratic medium, and non-technocratic realities fade away into the midst of memories of the elder citizens. Magical children challenge the presuppositions of each dominant language. They must be educated to understand the dominant language as the right way to communicate. Their immature visions, fantasies, and imaginations, must be put away, in order that they may cope successfully and survive, be saved, and go to heaven to live eternally with others who have been saved by the dominant language's message that it is ultimate. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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