But, answer the proponents of responsive constructivist evaluation, all these fears--about the loss of absolutes on which to pin our hopes, about intolerable ambiguity, about the loss of experimental and political control, about our inability to fine widely useful solutions to our pressing problems--are themselves only constructions in which their constructors are trapped because of thier rigid adherence to assumptions that have patently outlived their utility and thier credibility. It is precisely because of our preoccupation with finding universal solutions that we fail to see how to devise solutions with local meaning and utility. It is precisely because of our preoccupation with control that we fail to empower the very people whom we are putatively trying to serve.