2023-09-30
Technocracy has its roots in history - probably very ancient history - but for our purposes we need look back only to the Third Reich. I have to say that it's a salutary exercise to read Hitler's demands of the German nation, which at that time was reeling under the draconian war reparations treaty of Versailles, a treaty that we, if it were imposed on us, would consider crushing, inhuman, impossible ever to satiate. Clearly, something had to be done, and the German people were ready for it.
Hitler's list isn't all negative. There are certainly items that would resonate with us today as perfectly sensible. It was though a product of its times - a time of empire, of implacable economic war of nation against nation, with Germany very much the underdog with no means to get out from under.
Hitler's rhetoric must have seemed like a breath of fresh air.
I would have thought that somebody would have foreseen this - maybe somebody did. We have to ask how Hitler was permitted to get away with his putsch, and to go on to rearm the nation (funded by western bankers).
As ever, the key element that we are supposed to implicitly accept as given is that it is always necessary to centralise power into the hands of a leadership - the wise and generous leadership that we can all trust to guide us into a future flowing with milk and honey, the implacably strong leadership that will brook neither challenge to its power nor opposition to its policies.
It seems that we still need to learn, before it is too late, that the only safe paths into the future will be based upon a wholesale decentralisation of power that enables a vast flowering of alternative methods and solutions to be generated by the people themselves, working freely and independently, to solve the problems of the age. The best solutions will survive and become widely adopted, the rest will simply fall away.
It's time to take back control from the leadership's paid experts and propaganda tycoons (yes, for those who can see, the writing is on the internet wall already).
They will try to put the genie back into the bottle, by Acts of Parliament that seek to control the internet and those who can use it - "for our safety" - but it is already too late.
"May you live in interesting times".
