Technopenuriaphobia

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There was no word for it so I have taken the liberty of naming 'the fear of the lack of technology' 'technopenuriaphobia' or “TPP.”

The word 'penuria' comes from the Latin and means 'scarcity', or 'deficiency'.

It is interesting to note that the word 'technophobia,' which means 'the fear of technology and its effects', first appeared around 1964. Here it is forty years later and we now have 'technopenuriaphobia'. the fear of a lack of technology! We have grown so dependent on modern technology in this past generation that we can no longer live on our own planet without it.

An ideal environment for beginning technopenuria healing Experiments is in the arena of healing yourself, your relationship, and your family of this disease of contemporary life.

In our modern culture we are born high up on a technological ladder. Hanging out before us in the sky, bright as a Las Vegas casino sign, is the vision of the fabled good life that we are encouraged to strive for. We think we can achieve the good life only if we surround ourselves with enough labor saving, comfort providing, or entertainment devices. Even without trying to we are completely buffered from life on planet earth with scores of modern conveniences.

We learned that if you want food, all you have to do is go to the cupboard, the refrigerator or the freezer and open up boxes, cans, plastic bags, or cartons and there is an abundance of food. If the food starts to get low at home, go to the supermarket and there you will find food in such quantity and variety as to shame any king, all ready for the taking. Load up your basket and haul it home to eat. Food comes from the grocery store.

If you need money, for example, to buy the food, just give the people a little plastic card and type in a code number or write your name and the food is instantly paid for. If you want cash, use the same card and go to a cash machine or a bank teller. The money comes pouring out by the handfuls.

You want light? Flip a switch. Water? Turn a handle. New clothes? Use that plastic card again. Want to talk to somebody? Autodial their number wherever you are from your cell phone. Need to go somewhere? Don’t walk; use a machine: bicycle, car, bus, train, boat or plane. Machines take you rapidly and comfortably anywhere in the world.

We forget how absolutely astonishing the modern world is. We live in a culture and a time where wonder-filled technological conveniences rule our lives. In this “heaven” we can’t imagine that there could be a problem. But there is. The problem is that we are born high up on a technological ladder. We are skilled at living a modern life within technology. The technology is not the problem. The problem is the gap between us and planet earth.
We subconsciously sense that the rungs below us on the ladder of technology are missing. If we dare to look down we realize deep in our guts that those rungs are no longer in place. If we were to take one step down or somehow slip we would instantly be in danger. A hidden ceaseless fear rumbles silently deep in our belly.
The rungs disappear the moment we forget that we and planet earth are one. In our headlong rush toward the tantalizing modern comforts of tomorrow-land we have forgotten how to live without technology. We have high-tech but we are missing low-tech. We cannot sleep without a bed, eat without a supermarket, see without a streetlight, move without a car, or be with ourselves without distractive media.
We have screwed ourselves. We have lost the original technology that created civilization: fire starting, food finding, clothes making, shaping shelter and tools out of whatever comes to hand. The loss of low-tech knowledge creates a lethal gap between us and our planet, and that gap is now filled with unconscious fear: technopenuriaphobia.
There is already a significant body of research proving that harm is done to motor skills and hand-eye coordination by placing children in front of computer and television screens in the years when they need to be developing three-dimensional perceptions and physical dexterity. This psycho-emotional damage may be irreversible. Technopenuriaphobia is an additional damage caused by long-term exposure to a profound fear that we are not aware of and have no culturally embraced cure for.
TPP is a particularly Western affliction because you must first live with advanced technologies for a generation before the next generation forgets that you ever did not have them. One-hundred-thousand years of hard-earned life-knowledge vanishes from our common inheritance during one generation of being a city dweller. Considering the virulent Westernization of the rest of the world, technopenuriaphobia will quite likely infect millions if not billions more in the near future.
Getting dropped into the gap between planet and technology can happen in an instant when the elevator stops between floors, the batteries go dead, or the store is closed. A million different accidents can puncture the illusion of our comfortable little techno-world. We know bodily that if we were to somehow be separated from our conveniences – even just a few of them – we would be on very shaky ground.
Unless we have made special efforts to train ourselves in outdoor living skills, we all have technopenuriaphobia bothering us deep in our soul. TPP decreases the number of options from which we can choose and thereby forces certain lifestyles upon us that we assume are without alternatives – “What do you mean I could wear out my old shoes before ordering new ones on the Internet?” “What do you mean unplug the TV?” If a high level of technology must be supported, we become like goldfish living precariously in a glass bowl in the desert.
So what can we do? How can we heal ourselves from TPP? How can we get free of this insidious fear?
Assuredly it takes work to heal oneself of TPP. Work and time. You can approach the work as fun work, but time to do that work will not come without you making it. Listed below are ideas for Edgework Experiments to heal yourself of this modern day affliction.
By the way, TPP Edgework Experiments are excellent activities to share with children. Anti-technopenuriaphobia measures are a powerful intervention that safeguards the basic sanity and self-esteem of your children for their whole lives. Your efforts may last for generations because your children could well pass the benefit on to their own children, and their children’s children after that.

Please remember, we are not proposing a back-to-nature anti-technology movement. We are not promoting medieval or tribal lifestyles. The point is to fill a gap where you are noncommittal, hollow, and inauthentic due to a deep abiding terror.

We are encouraging you to reclaim non-technical options in your everyday actions and thoughts.

We are begging you to install low-tech rungs in the ladder of technology to fill the gap between you and planet Earth so as to build a stable foundation on which you can relax.

While reading through this sample list below, mark which TPP Experiments are attractive to you, and jot down notes about others that you may think of.

This does not mean that you promise to do these Experiments, or even that you know how to do these Experiments. You are simply marking or creating Experiments that might turn you on to try.

1. Hand-carve your own chopsticks and use them to eat meals including Haferflockenschleim and spaghetti.
2. Hand sew a cloth or leather pouch for your chopsticks.
3. Hand sew a cloth or leather pouch for your Possibility Stone for in your pocket or around your neck.
4. Hand-carve a wooden spoon that fits your own hand, use it for eating all your meals at the PLab.
5. Collect three stones and practice Stacking Rocks.
6. Go outside and learn to identify local edible plants, harvest them, cook and eat them for some of the meals.
7. Build a snowman or an igloo together in 30 minutes.
8. Play baseball all on one team.
9. New England style country dancing with a caller yelling out what to do next, folk dancing, square dancing, circle and line dancing.
10. Practice Intuition – build your intuition muscles, face and remove your blocks.
11. Sword work.
12. Mini vision quest in the woods.
13. Journey Into The Mountain.
14. Make short 3 minute film interviews with each person about the purpose of their life. Review them with feedback and coaching.
15. Practice starting a fire without matches.
16. Learn to identify the North Star and how to find it from other constellations such as Orion and Casseopia.
17. Build with leather and cord a sling (like David and Goliath) and practice using it to accurately throw stones.
18. Cut and grind to sharpness your own throwing knife out of steel bar stock, then practice knife throwing.
19. Carve your own wooden spear and practice spear throwing.
20. Practice making lock-pick tools and picking locks.
21. Do stagework – create scenes of low drama to high drama, healing, realization and transformation.
22. Sing until the song sings you.
23. Learn and sing Barbershop Quartet songs.
24. Telling stories about your family's heroes. If certain of your ancestors did not do what they did you would not have been born. Tell what these heroes did. Tell what you have done as a hero for future generations.
25. Practice juggling, also in pairs.
26. Use soft foam balls to do the Problems process (ask Nicola Nagel).
27. Do the Stellating Gremlin initiation.
28. Creating new centering exercises in small groups and teach them to the other small groups.
29. Practice new meeting technologies, such as: The Problem Is The Solution, Frying Pan, Phoenix Process, M.E.S.S. (Mayan Extraordinary Synergy System), Open Space (from Harrison Owen www.openspaceworld.org ), Wisdom Council (from Jim Rough www.dynamicfacilitation.com), etc.
30. Create exercises for practicing the 7 Core Skills of Possibility Management: contact, centering, being unhookable, holding and navigating space, going stellar with feelings, creating possibility, self-marketing.
31. Practice applying various Possibility Manager Tool Belt tools in stagework situations: disk of nothing, wand of declaration, bag of things, is-glue and dissolver, possibility stone, sword of clarity, voice blaster, clicker for going nonlinear, etc.
32. Doing self-surgeries, such as Trust Replacement Surgery, Sewing Up Brain Splits from childhood, Rewiring Fear so that fear equals fear, Bypassing Mind Machines (identifying the 5 kinds of Mind Machines as various survival strategies).
33. Practice making the bubble and the grounding cord, various ways to cleanse the bubble.
34. Practice holding personal bubble space and work space at the same time.
35. Practice splitting your Point of Origin, so that you put one part on the person or people you are serving, and one part on the source of a thoughtmap or distinction, so that you newly originate what you communicate specifically for that person or group and the information is coming directly from the source through you to them and not coming from your mind.
36. Practice using the Box as a one centimeter cube for farfetching.
37. Practicing The Box is Optional exercise.
38. Practice using the Feelings Orchestra to complete real incomplete emotions, such as if someone close dies (e.g. Nelson Mandela, who was close to all of us), someone loses a baby, or ends a relationship, if there is a natural disaster (e.g. hurricane in Philippines) to consciously connect in and grieve and rage and be afraid with the people.
39. Practice weaving baskets, making soap, making clothing, making paper, making pens from feathers and ink and writing poems, drawing with charcoal, body painting in men's culture and women's culture.
40. Practice men's and women's culture circles.
41. Bring in guest trainers for a day or half-day or evening to deliver a specific extra-special process or experience for participants.
42. Develop and deploy each person's "shtick." Shtick is a source of authentic humor (as opposed to unconscious Gremlin humor which is not appropriate in Training spaces). If you do not have your shtick then the nonlinear possibilities created through humor are missing. Your shtick is your personal style of humor and nonlinear quirks. Every Trainer needs to develop and deliver their unique personal shtick until it can fill up the whole space and take the space in nonlinear directions. Using your shtick is often a conscious use of your Gremlin. You already know that my personal shtick includes burping, farting, side-talking with my co-trainer, being overwhelmed with surprise when big Gremlins or big Boxes show up, making exaggerated or funny faces, Pirate jokes, eating gigantic plates of chocolate during while watching action movies late at night, group hugs, and so on. Possibility Labs need your humor. Participants need do see your shtick. Participants need to fall in love with your playful enthusiasm for this work and for the simplicity of co-creating their bright future. PLabs are not just about battling people's Box and Gremlin to death.
43. And so on