Technocracy Ascending-Part 2: Trust Me, I’m a Technocrat

Part 1 of this series detailed a brief history of the movement started by Technocracy Inc. in the 1930s to completely transform North America into a scientific dictatorship. Their vision of a technocratic regime required all industry, resources, and governance be managed by scientists, engineers, and technicians.

Today, many aspects of their original plans are being executed through intentional collaboration between Big Tech, government, and NGOs, with power continually shifting toward present-day tech titans. The questions this installment seeks to answer are: (1) who authorized today’s technocrats to act in humanity’s interest, (2) what is their overarching world view, and (3) what are they hoping to accomplish?

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Though they would argue, technocratic governments trend toward elitist rule. How could they not since technocracy’s core tenet posits that only the best and brightest (and often wealthiest) in STEM-related fields are fit to run society? Technocrats are averse to all political systems, believing they alone possess the knowledge and skill required to achieve the “common good” in all societies. Nevertheless, they often work behind the scenes within all forms of government to achieve their means. While promising equality, their rule can be more accurately described as a technical oligarchy, hence the need for extreme caution.

Such an organization has no precedence in any of the political forms. It is neither a democracy, an aristocracy, a plutocracy, a dictatorship, nor any of the other familiar political forms, all of which are completely inadequate and incompetent to handle the job. It is, instead, a Technocracy, being built along the technological lines of the job in hand.”
– Technocracy Study Course, 1934. p.234

Early technocrats recognized that the world was trending toward greater levels of technological advancement. As a result, most would become dependent on these innovations for essential needs.

In the present, as contrasted with the past, the great majority of the population is in a position of absolute dependence upon the uninterrupted operation of a technological mechanism.”
– Technocracy Study Course, 1934. p. 211

Technocrats thought the best way to provide goods and services was to commandeer the equipment needed to produce basic necessities. They created a system where equal distribution of goods and services would be fostered by substituting money for energy costs. To fully institute this radical transformation, technocrats needed ownership and oversight of the railways, power plants, telecommunications systems, factories, farms, etc. This system was described fully in the Technocracy Study Course published in 1934. The end products to be attained were:

“(a) a high physical standard of living, (b) a high standard of public health, (c) a minimum of unnecessary labor, (d) a minimum of wastage of nonreplaceable resources, (e) an educational system to train the entire younger generation indiscriminately as regards all considerations other than inherent ability—a Continental system of human conditioning.” (emphasis added)

As touched on previously, technocrats believed the “price-based” economic system would crash and burn, leaving a trail of disaster in its wake. They viewed the Great Depression as proof of capitalism’s imminent demise. With full confidence in their plans to reengineer the (North American) continent, they boasted that:

“Technocracy will not perish. After the inevitable collapse of our stupendous financial and political structure, after the many palliatives have been tried and have failed, it will still remain. Technocracy is the one workable answer to the frightening dilemma in which we find ourselves.”
– Technocracy in Plain Terms, p. 6

Some of the initial plans of Technocracy Inc. in the 1930s have been adopted well beyond North American borders and gone through several iterations before arriving at what we are today. Many of their boasts have been proven accurate and threaten to plunge the world into a neo-feudal state worse than anything that has preceded.

Why is Trust Shifting Towards Technocrats?

Technocracy becomes a form of salvation after societies realize that democracy doesn’t guarantee national success. Democracy eventually gets sick of itself and votes for technocracy.”
– Parag Khanna, Technocracy in America: The Rise of the Info State, 2017, p. 21

Technocracy (the system) and technology (the tools) are the hand and glove of the new order being established across the planet. Throughout the world, politicians and leaders are summoning the help of technocrats to help fix broken economies and governments.

Technocracy has previously taken root in or is currently being advocated for in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Italy,India, Singapore, Lebanon, France, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mexico, Sudan, Tunisia, Ghana, and Nigeria among several others. Hamas and Fatah have agreed to install a technocratic government to manage the Gaza Strip after warfare has ceased. Technocrats in the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia are collaborating with German officials to secure funding for damages resulting from the so-called climate change crisis. Technocrats in Iran have advocated for the end of hostilities with the United States, believing they can collaborate with the incoming Trump administration, who has also surrounded himself with technocrats for his second term.