{"id":3499,"date":"2015-09-16T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:36:24","slug":"136-laudato-si%e2%80%99-contemplating-the-technocratic-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"136. Laudato Si\u2019: Contemplating the Technocratic Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201c<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements\u2014surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Job 38:4-7<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>NRSV<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.Technocracy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3503\" title=\"Laudato Si.Technocracy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.Technocracy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"261\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.profit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3501\" title=\"Laudato Si.profit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.profit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The world as we see it is fast and furious with all the incredible creativity and inventions of contemporary technology. Sadly, it is also shrouded in captivity by this powerful force of technology, endlessly bleeding and disintegrating it. In <em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>, Pope Francis takes the reflection a step further, clarifying the dehumanizing effect of an unbridled capitalism that is armed with contemporary technology. Addressing the spiritual roots of environmental problems, he\u00a0invites all to serious contemplation as he unequivocally names human attitude and behaviour as a major cause of global climate change and ecological destruction. He urges all sectors of society to examine our actions, policies and behaviours in light of this urgent situation. He speaks of how the cry of the earth and the cry of the Poor are one, pointing out the <em>interconnection<\/em> of all forms of poverty \u2013 environmental and human \u2013 and the need to address them in an integral way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What we need is a \u201cbold cultural revolution\u201d, Pope Francis insists. Nobody is calling for a return to the Stone Age. But, at the rate and on the scale of destruction of the ecology, and the apparent captivity of humanity by technology and its associated mind set,<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cwe do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way, to appropriate the positive and sustainable progress which has been made, but also to recover the values and the great goals swept away by our unrestrained delusions of grandeur\u201d [N0.114].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The issues are complex. In chapter 3 of the encyclical, he examines the human roots of the ecological crisis. His analysis on three points, amongst other points, are particularly helpful for our contemplation at this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1. First, a domineering technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Heading the list of human problems is identified as the \u201ctechnocratic paradigm\u201d. Citing Romano Guardini, this means the method and aims of science and technology, which are objective and impersonal, have been unconsciously adopted as the dominating basis of knowledge to \u00a0shape personal lives as well as the workings of society. Far from being neutral, technological products have so conditioned our lifestyles that society is dictated by the interests of certain powerful groups [No.107]. As the technocratic paradigm dominates economic and political life [No.109], life as a whole \u201cgradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology, itself viewed as the principal key to the meaning of existence&#8221; [No.110].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is why Pope Francis is especially critical of an undifferentiated and one-dimensional vision in this paradigm.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis paradigm exalts the concept of a subject who, using logical and rational procedures, progressively approaches and gains control over an external object. This subject makes every effort to establish the scientific and experimental method, which in itself is already a technique of possession, mastery and transformation\u201d [No.106].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of course technology itself is not the problem &#8211; in fact, the achievements of science and technology are praised throughout the document. We are, after all, the beneficiaries of two centuries of technological advances which have \u201cremedied countless evils that used to harm and limit human beings\u201d [No.102]. We need no reminder that, well directed, <em>technoscience<\/em> improves the quality of life all round [No.103]. But, we are equally convinced that \u201cthe tremendous power\u201d technology has yielded, can be tapped by \u201cthose with knowledge and economic resources to dominate humanity and the entire world\u201d [No.104]. History is replete with actual illustrations of the incalculable risks to humanity when nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction are in the hands of insane individuals and totalitarian regimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this regard, Pope Francis questions the modern myth of progress. Quoting Guardini, he laments the \u201ctendency to believe that every increase in power means \u2018an increase of \u2018progress\u2019 itself\u201d or that \u201cgoodness and truth automatically flow from technological and economic power as such\u201d [No.105].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Naming real world problems from a moral and spiritual perspective, the saddest part of reality as he sees it is that \u201ccontemporary man has not been trained to use power well\u201d. On this, we suspect people around the world can wholeheartedly agree. However, just as this assessment is accurate on the use of technology in the world, it is even more blindingly true of the Church as an institution. Again, we suspect that Pope Francis\u2019 words on the ecology are \u201cbelievable\u201d &#8211; just as people of Jesus\u2019 time accepted Him as teaching \u201cwith authority\u201d &#8211; principally because he calls the clergy to account in words and action, in work and lifestyle. Specifically in regard to human reliance on technological inventions, Pope Francis\u2019 analysis deserves special attention in various respects, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that \u201cour immense technological development has not been accompanied by a development in human responsibility, values and conscience\u201d,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that humanity does not use its power as it should,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that \u201cpower is never considered in terms of the responsibility of choice which is inherent in freedom\u201d,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that our freedom has been \u201chanded over to the blind forces of the unconscious, of immediate needs, of self-interest, and of violence\u201d,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and that we lack \u201ca sound ethics, a culture and spirituality genuinely capable of setting limits and teaching clear-minded self-restraint\u201d [No.105].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is lamentable is a lack of consciousness of these issues. Our consciousness, be it individual or collective, evolves in a developmental way. As our consciousness increases, it has the tendency to spiral. Beginning in small tentative steps, it may soon blossom across a wide terrain. So Pope Francis urges us to take a long hard look at reality \u2013 the state the world is in, the dominant technocratic worldview, values, and assumptions that have shaped our modern thinking and the modern industrialized society. We have all but shifted to a \u201ctechnocratic paradigm\u201d, the downside of which is that it is also a worldview that sees things as separate and disconnected. Such a paradigm is no longer adequate:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe fragmentation of knowledge proves helpful for concrete applications, and yet it often leads to a loss of appreciation for the whole, for the relationships between things, and for the broader horizon, which then becomes irrelevant. This very fact makes it hard to find adequate ways of solving the more complex problems of today\u2019s world, particularly those regarding the environment and the poor; these problems cannot be dealt with from a single perspective or from a single set of interests\u201d [No. 110].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We need to see how seriously injurious these are to both the environmental as well as the social ecology. A transformation of our consciousness is badly needed. What is authentic development? What is the goal of our pursuits in science and technology? Is technological and economic development not skewed if it creates an economy of exclusion, failing to serve human beings, to enhance human dignity and to ensure access to all what is needed for authentic human development? To counter a blind technocratic mentality, this encyclical arouses our consciousness to an urgent need:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere needs to be a distinctive way of looking at things, a way of thinking, policies, an educational programme, a lifestyle and a spirituality which together generate resistance to the assault of the technocratic paradigm\u201d [No.111].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Humanity has the capacity to broaden our vision and the authentic freedom to limit and direct technology in ways that are healthier and more human. Technology must serve humanity and not just the market, the Poor and not just the rich.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is needed is a broader vision where \u201ctechnology is directed primarily to resolving people\u2019s concrete problems, truly helping them live with more dignity and less suffering\u201d [No.112].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we acknowledge the strengths and limits of science and technology, we seek also to include that which is of value to genuine integral human development. This encyclical is thus a call to a new way of being. It is a call to contemplation, to see the ecological crisis clearly, and to respect God\u2019s creation. Humanity can create structures, policies, and systems that support a shift in consciousness. We see the strength of this encyclical in its opening of a space for transformation so necessary to respond to the cries of the earth and the cries of the Poor. But it all starts with a new consciousness which is<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201can awareness of our common origin, of our mutual belonging, and of a future to be shared with everyone. This basic awareness would enable the development of new convictions, attitudes and forms of life.\u00a0A great cultural, spiritual and educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out on the long path of renewal\u201d [No.202].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our duty is to keep widening that consciousness and transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2. Second, a single-minded focus on profit<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Technology is fundamentally something good and desirable. The problem is, technology has been corrupted by our greed. In the technocratic paradigm, the world is seen in its givenness, and nature is something to be overcome, to be rendered completely open to manipulation for quick profit. The Pope saves his harshest words for such unmitigated greed which \u201caccepts every advance in technology with a view to profit, without concern for its potentially negative impact on human beings\u201d [No.109].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When maximizing profits is the singular goal, we see the myth of progress as an idea, in sharp contrast to the phenomena of environmental and social ruin as a reality. Paragraph 109 of the encyclical highlights many woes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When technology is put in service of greed, without concern for its potential impact on human beings, the market will show \u201cno interest in more balanced level of production, a better distribution of wealth, concern for the environment and the rights of future generations\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When maximizing profits is the only goal, what we end up with is \u201ca sort of \u2018superdevelopment\u2019 of a wasteful and consumerist kind\u201d which results in dehumanizing deprivation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have all but failed to give the Poor regular access to even basic resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have failed to \u201csee the deepest roots of our present failures, which have to do with the direction, goals, meaning and social implications of technological and economic growth.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A profit-driven business also serves the singularly destructive goal of extracting everything possible from the material world, and from other human beings, while ignoring the ruinous reality in front of us. Economists, financiers and experts in technology too easily \u201caccept the idea of infinite and unlimited growth\u2026 based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth\u2019s goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry beyond every limit\u201d [No.106].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When technology serves the market rather than humanity, the rich instead of the Poor, then he who has the knowledge and the financial resources wins. Truly, the rich get richer, and the Poor get poorer. In recent months, in Italy and in Latin America, the Pope repeatedly raised his moral voice \u00a0against business profiteers with a harshness that was clearly calculated to shock and quite unequalled in recent papacies. Citing the fourth century saint, Basil of Caesarea, he described indifference, greed and a profit-mentality at all costs &#8211; in a word, \u00a0\u201cthe unfettered pursuit of money\u201d &#8211; the \u201cdung of the devil\u201d<em>!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis is not anti-business by any stretch of imagination. On the contrary, he exalts business as \u201ca noble vocation\u201d \u2013 a remarkable elevation in official documents that have only recently begun to recognize the work of business leaders as a vocation. While business is directed to producing wealth and improving the world, it can also be a fruitful source of prosperity and human dignity, \u201cespecially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good.\u201d [No.129]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A meaningful future for humanity cannot depend on technical abilities alone. The creation of newer and higher-tech toys may only exalt a superficiality in life. Science and technology, like capitalism, are not innately evil. Created by humans, they can be put to use for good or evil. Science and technology and capitalism can free us or enslave us; we make our choice. Consciousness is the key.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The goal of Pope Francis\u2019 work is clear:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He seeks to draw our attention to \u201cthe ethical and spiritual roots of environmental problems, which require that we look for solutions not only in technology but in a change of humanity; otherwise we would be dealing merely with symptoms.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He makes a plea for replacing \u201cconsumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing, an asceticism which entails learning to give, and not simply to give up. It is a way of loving, of moving gradually away from what I want to what God\u2019s world needs. It is liberation from fear, greed and compulsion.\u201d [No.9]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And as we continue to wonder about the purpose and meaning of everything, Pope Francis points to the Holy Trinity as the key to reading reality. He suggests to us all to recapture an imagination of the Trinity in its generous, overflowing love and the ontological depths of its relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">History teaches that the poor and marginalized always suffer when too much power and wealth are placed in the hands of too few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3. Third, a culture of reductionism and relativism<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.Consumerism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3505\" title=\"Laudato Si.Consumerism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laudato-Si.Consumerism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Consumerism cartoon by Polyp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Modernity is marked by an excessive anthropocentrism [No.116] that prizes technical thought over reality. It is a misguided anthropocentrism that tends towards compromising the intrinsic dignity of the world [No.115]. When fundamental human dignity is neglected, it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself [No.117].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The effects of imposing the technocratic paradigm on reality as a whole, human and social, are seen in the deterioration of the environment both natural and social. This is, for Pope Francis, a sign of \u201ca reductionism which affects every aspect of human and social life\u201d [No. 107]. But, in failing to cooperate with God in the work of creation, declaring independence from reality and behaving with absolute dominion over nature, humanity experiences the crumbling of the very foundations of our life as well as a punishing rebellion on the part of nature [No.117].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In our present ecological crisis, Pope Francis sees the echo of the ethical, cultural and spiritual crisis of modernity. At the heart of this crisis of modernity is a culture of relativism. He sees a direct link between the modern misguided anthropocentrism and the rise of a relativistic mindset and hence a misguided lifestyle [No.121]. Our broken relationship with nature and the environment, he insists, cannot possibly be healed without healing <em>all<\/em> fundamental human relationships, including our relationships with others and God [No.119].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unlike his predecessors, Pope Francis believes that \u201cpractical relativism\u201d typical of our age is even more dangerous than doctrinal relativism. In practical relativism, human beings place themselves at the center, give absolute priority to immediate convenience, and make all else relative. Relativism sees everything as irrelevant unless it serves one\u2019s own immediate interests. Linking this with the dominant technocratic paradigm and \u201cthe cult of unlimited human power\u201d [No.122], Pope Francis sees the disorders in society as resulting from this relativistic logic:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It drives one person to take advantage of another, to treat others as mere objects rather than subjects of intrinsic God-given dignity;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It creates forced labour and enslaves individuals and nations to pay so-called \u201cdebts\u201d;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It manifests in the sexual exploitation of children, abandonment of the elderly, human trafficking, organized crime, drug smuggling, commerce in human organs of the Poor, blood diamond and fur of endangered species;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It chooses to \u201callow the invisible forces of the market to regulate the economy, and consider their impact on society and nature as collateral damage\u201d; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a \u201cuse and throw away\u201d logic that \u201cgenerates so much waste, because of the disordered desire to consume more than what is really necessary\u201d [No.123].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the later chapters of <em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>, he will lay out his response to the environmental crisis, but right here in chapter three, he shows his support for an economy that favors productive diversity and small scale producers. \u201cFor example, there is a great variety of small-scale food production systems which feed the greater part of the world\u2019s peoples, using a modest amount of land and producing less waste, be it in small agricultural parcels, in orchards and gardens, hunting and wild harvesting or local fishing.\u201d But he also recognizes that small farmers and producers are threatened by economies of scale and by the difficulty they face in linking to regional and global markets because the infrastructure for sales and transport is geared to larger businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He calls for government support of such small producers. \u201cTo ensure economic freedom from which all can effectively benefit,\u201d he asserts, \u201crestraints occasionally have to be imposed on those possessing greater resources and financial power.\u201d He thinks a great deal of calls for \u201ceconomic freedom\u201d to be bogus when \u201creal conditions bar many people from actual access to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Francis\u2019 thoughts on domineering technology, a single-minded focus on profit, and practical relativism are prophetic and challenging. They fly in the face of many of our contemporary cultural presuppositions. Pope Francis does not believe that technology and the market will magically provide the solution to social and environmental issues, rather they are part of the problem. On the other hand, he believes that technology can and should be used to improve the lot of humanity and that business people are called to <em>a noble vocation<\/em> that is in service to the common good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As Albert Einstein has said, we cannot solve the problems at the same level of consciousness that created them. Pope Francis wants to awaken the world to a new and heightened consciousness that something is wrong with our world, with ourselves. He is inviting us to see beyond the usual atomistic worldview and to adopt <em>a new way<\/em> of looking, thinking, and policy-making that will address these complex problems out of a new consciousness. Centred on an <em>integral ecological vision<\/em> [see Nos.137-162], Pope Francis sees everyone and everything connected: all the numerous problems facing us are part of the environmental poverty <em>and<\/em> human poverty. His is a call to contemplation, to transform our consciousness, so we may begin to do something helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leading the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation recently, Pope Francis prayed that people would learn to contemplate God in the beauty of the universe, give thanks and protect all life. He prayed that God would &#8220;enlighten the lords of power and money so they would not fall into indifference, but would love the common good, encourage the weak and care for the world in which we live.&#8221; He had earlier announced that the Catholic Church would join the Orthodox Church in marking the prayer day September 1 each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Copyright \u00a9 Dr. Jeffrey &amp; Angie Goh, September, 2015. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You are most welcome to respond to this post. 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