I’ve spent my adult life in dread of it. These guys are awaiting it like hyperchristians awaiting the second coming. Or so it would appear. Actually, I didn’t spend a lot of time at their site because it’s so unreadable. One would think that techoidolators would at least make a passable attempt at using technology to promote their point of view. Oh well.
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Load More..."If Congress wanted to actually fight white supremacist violence, it could fund grants for schools to teach racial justice education. Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act at a time when states are making it illegal to teach about Emmett Till." - @dereckapurnell https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1526916622992265216
hi- here's my latest piece thinking through how symbolic legislation like the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching law cannot stop the murderous white supremacist violence we just witnessed in Buffalo, and real answers that communities have been fighting for instead
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/18/why-do-white-supremacists-want-to-kill-black-peopleNot sure he’s fully thought through the implications of this comparison https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1526901127568138243
On Russian state TV they're so obsessed with WW2 that they're comparing Mariupol to the Battle of Stalingrad
(with subtitles)Here's the deal. Just assuming Shapiro will crush Mastriano has very 2016 vibes. Are the Republicans who are calling him a "disaster" and a "nightmare" going to endorse an insurrectionist. This is not theoretical. https://www.thebulwark.com/are-republicans-now-going-to-endorse-doug-mastriano/
Madison Cawthorn has learned his lesson
by Susan CollinsDon’t read too much into the Cawthorn loss.
He didn’t lose because he’s a treasonous Russian stooge and total racist asshat.
He lost because he was embarrassing and disloyal to the OTHER treasonous Russian stooges and total racists of the GOP.
What’s so unreadable about it? I can read it just fine. Sounds like a poor excuse for passing on an idea.
WRT unreadable, I find the background and font colors produce a nasty headache. Ia lso find them high on rhetoric and low on content.
Their content, however, is not terribly new. Since Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, numerous economists and others have sought to replace the perceived nasty mess of human politics with a purportedly scientific approach. Heck, if we stretch “science” to mean reason generally, Plato can get credit for the first proposal to dump messy old democracy with a “rational” system based on the science of the day (read “The Republic.”)
Fictional examples likewise abound, as both Utopias (Well’s _Things to Come_, Heinlien’s _Beyond This Horizon_) and dystopia’s (Huxley’s _Brave New World_).
If you crave a real life example of technocracy and it’s real-world pitfalls, consider the history of the IAB and the transformation of IANA to ICANN.
The basic fallacy, from my perspective, is that human politics can somehow have all the irrationality pressed out of it and that proper solutions for a better world (however defined) have one “right” answer which is discoverable through reason.
Harold
Thanks, Harold. Right on the money.
As to my general critique of the technopolistic/technocratic mindset, I pretty much presented it in my novel Acts of the Apostles, available for free a mere two clicks away. So I don’t think I need to rehash this. . .
John
I really like acts of .. (but I like cheap complex devices even more).
However, it’s not for free. Yes, I does not cost money to download it. But it does cost time to read, it costs curiosity and thinking time, absorptive capacity, it might even change your perspective … all of that quite rare these days.
About technocrats: living in a delusion that their particular point of view is unbiased. Monistic believers in a single truth. Did not get that science is all about criticising everything and everyone constantly.
Christian (working in a Basel pharmaceutical company, not Hoff-Zeigy, but Nov-artis = San-Ciba though!)