Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B. Part 7

This brings us back to the discussion of morality. When the word morality is discussed I have argued that it usually carries with it religious connotations. American society is starting to understand that there is a difference between morality and spirituality, where one is religious and the other can be secular. SRL further proposes that morality can be further differentiated from itself in the sense that there can be both a religious as well as a “technical” morality. This “technical morality”, as SRL calls it, is superimposed upon the existing social structure, integrating and expanding upon the pre-existing social fabric. Dynamic and flexible like a biological or sentient being, this “technical morality” is responsive to the pre-existing social structure’s thoughts, beliefs, and values. Although the concept of a “technical morality” is to be elaborately explained in section 2, it is clear that it now, once introduced, becomes an ingrained and permanent part of our cultural and societal structure.

As a social matrix, “technical morality” integrates and contributes to the development of society’s personal, professional, and political framesets. These framesets, as operational schemas devised as heuristic devices to order and organize our lives, are an important part of how we define ourselves, and society. The caution that SRL implicitly communicates throughout this book is that the “technical morality” social matrix is artificial and contrived. It is man made, and more specifically, those in power have manufactured it, in an effort to maintain that power.