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This-essay is a8000161.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 ========================================================== %CHECKS AND BALANCES OF TECHNOCRATS 800016 The American political system entails a system of checks and balances between branches of government. Yet, within those branches of government a single set of intellectual presuppositions may dominate. There is no firm tradition of checks and balances to insure that no one set of presuppositions dominate to the exclusion of complementary ones. The preoccupations of technocrats include concern for gaining control of situations. Within a political system it is natural for a technocrat who has made certain basic assumptions---to gain control to prevent people with opposing "false" presuppositions from having any power. Technocrats are prone to place high value upon scientific "truth" which clearly points the way to what "should" be done in a presumably "objective" way. They tend to--- obscure differences between scientific considerations--- and the operation of values in setting priorities in personal ways. Through such obscuration technical assumptions come to dominance---to the exclusion of personal considerations. Technocrats in all branches of government tend to undermine the power of person-oriented members all branches of government---and so undermine informal checks and balances regarding the dominance of assumptions and presuppositions. It will not be easy to institute a humane and workable system of checks and balances. Any effort to make it systematic---may bias it in favor of technocrats. Any effort to make it personable---may bias it in favor of persons prone to personal dominance in a dictatorial manner. A formal balance will not be easy to conceive in the absence of appropriate parental role models and religious contexts. (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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