blog traffic analysis
This-essay is a7907111.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 ========================================================== %ACCEPT AFFIRM ENJOY MYSTERY PLEASURE+790711 %PROBLEM UNDERSTAND CONTROL TECHNOCRAT+790711 %THOU TRANSCENDENT POWER COLLUSION 790711 Technocrats can not accept, affirm, or enjoy mysteries. The compulsively pious can not permit others to approach mysteries in analytic I-It modalities, as if essential mysteries were in need of the protection offered by the pious. Technocrats do not admit that there are any essential mysteries. The compulsively pious do not admit that the essential mysteries are more powerful than they are---so they claim the essential mysteries are in need of protection by the pious. Both the technocrats and the compulsively pious deny the transcendent power of the essential mysteries of life, but they differ in the manner of their denial. In fact, many of the compulsively pious people are religious technocrats, and many of the technocrats are compulsively pious worshipers of science and technology. A subculture may be characterized by the mysteries which it accepts, affirms, and enjoys. Some subcultures accept, affirm, and enjoy many mysteries---and differ according to which ones they so treat. Other subcultures accept, affirm, and enjoy virtually no mysteries---and differ according to the manners in which they deny, ignore, repress, fear, obscure, and attempt to gain control over essential mysteries. Yet other cultures mystify realities which are not mysterious in any essential ways, and they differ from each other according to the choices of the realities which are mystified and the manner of mystification. Thus each subculture may be characterized by its response to mysteries. Cultures which differ about mysteries will have difficulties being in dialogue about their ultimate concerns. Mysteries pertain to meaning in life and so to ultimate concerns. Cultures which are characterized by collusive denials of essential mysteries can not be in dialogue with other cultures about the mysteries which they deny. Cultures which mystify realities which are not essentially mysterious can not be in dialogue with cultures which regard such realities as essentially non- mysterious. Often break-downs in dialogue can be traced to differences in the mysteries of different cultures. The technology of each culture is a working out in practice of the implications of the way the culture deals with mystery. The history of science and technology is thus woven into the history of the culture's coping with mystery. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
Lines beginning with a percent sign are  KEYWORDS  for use
in ESSAY-System Searches.  Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ =  a  means 99,
@ =  b  means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.

Links to date-adjacent essays are near  page top & bottom.

Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER near the top or bottom of a web page of essayz.com 1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com 2. Find brief-essays via keywords 3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION 4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK 5. GoTo Action & Information Center 6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month 7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts 8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE

This-essay is a7907111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. These 5 lines echo top lines. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One