"Technocratic human beings are spiritually dead. They are
capable of anything, no matter how heinous, because they do not reflect
upon or question the ultimate goal." ---Chris Hedges
"River and ocean turbines for electricity; hydrogen
power; urban farms; massive water desalination---these are just a few of
the means for making an abundant non-technocratic future. By any
rational standard, technocratic idiocy is already obsolete."
---The Underground, Jon Rappoport
---Thanks to Patrick Wood and his book, Technocracy Rising, for expanding my insight into these areas.
Consider the term "scientific humanism." The Oxford
Dictionary offers this definition: "A form of humanist theory and
practice that is based on the principles and methods of science;
specifically the doctrine that human beings should employ scientific
methods in studying human life and behaviour, in order to direct the
welfare and future of mankind in a rational and beneficial
manner...Origin mid-19th century."
That definition gives you a good general meaning for "technocracy."
Understanding the mindset of technocrats is necessary; they
believe that since they can plan the shape of society, they should plan
the shape of society.
Politicians are outmoded along this new evolutionary path.
They will fade into extinction. Instead, engineers will take their
place.
Human beings (all eight billion) will be accounted for. They
will receive energy quotas. Because a master map exists for the amount
of global energy available at any moment, every human will be permitted
to consume just so much energy during a defined
time period.
This is the technocratic "big picture."
Wherever you see the Surveillance State, you see technocracy.
The claim that surveillance is being utilized to prevent terror attacks
is a cover story. In fact, there can be no all-embracing technocracy
without real-time tracking of every citizen's
energy consumption.
But technocracy goes much farther than this. Humans are
viewed as mis-programmed biological machines in need of basic
corrections. Their tendency to engage in conflict needs to be curbed.
Whatever they do, say, or think that runs counter to the tight
organizing of "peaceful and harmonious" society from above is, a
priori, irrational and must be eradicated at the level of Mind.
The necessary reprogramming would be achieved through
genetic, electronic, and chemical means. Though never admitting it
publicly, dyed in the wool technocrats see no reason to maintain the
human population at its current level. Elimination of large
numbers of "biological machines" would make their job easier.
Heraldic fairy tales about "transhuman" transformation are
used to put a wondrous face on technocracy. For example, we're told that
soon it will be possible to connect a human brain with a super-computer
and download "spiritual wisdom, knowledge,
and talents" directly to the human.
Technocratic premise: society itself is a game board, and
someone has to be in charge; who better than engineers with an overall
plan?
So-called "advances" in human life will begin by stating the
basic "rights" people are entitled to. For example, "an optimum state of
social existence." What this really means is "pegs in holes." People
will be fitted into slots that yield up the
"largest amount of possible collective happiness."
It's all about The Plan.
Freedom? Freedom to choose? Never heard of it.
Instead, what the individual is given from above is
satisfactory to him because the individual has been engineered to
believe it is.
Smart-grid, sustainable development, green economy, land use,
community planning, climate change, education in values, and other
campaigns are signals and steps toward the far shore of technocracy.
They all point to putting "pegs in holes." They
all ultimately involve quotas for energy consumption.
They all involve the assumption that, since there is only so
much to go around, a higher authority must decide who gets what. Food,
water, shelter, jobs, luxuries, energy...
Clue: scientists and engineers can arbitrarily say what science is, and therefore they can say The Plan is "scientific."
If you say, "Well, look, there are genuine ways to vastly
increase the amount of available water and energy and clean food," you
would be running against the technocratic blueprint. Opting for
abundance is not welcomed. Abundance cuts the chords
of The Plan. Scarcity must rule and it must be promoted. The lack of
all essentials must be cited as the reason for imposing technocratic
answers. There is no way around it.
The irony is, when you talk to really hard-core
environmentalists about the means for achieving abundance through
alternative technologies, they balk and grow angry. They don't want
technological solutions---and yet, the powers behind them, where
the big money is, are, in fact, all about technology---technology of a
certain kind, which is based on planning out a society in which
permanent and growing scarcity is MAINTAINED AND PROMOTED as the
immutable reality.
It's quite mad, quite insane. But when has that ever stopped the men who are quite sure they should sit on thrones?
Vast abundance is more than a vision. It is a reachable
possibility. The history of actual science and technology confirms that
both essential materials and available human innovation were always
downplayed as shortages---until some individual came
along and demonstrated that a new way of doing things would break
through the shortage.
Corporations, governments, think-thanks, and universities try
to limit, curb, and bury inventions that open up the future to
abundance. Technocrats are in a race to "plan society" before those
inventions leak out into the public and make them, the
technocrats, obsolete.
But they are obsolete. They just haven't figured it out yet.
But we can figure it out.
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