The desire for technocracy – or technécracy?
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The desire for technocracy – or technécracy?
An online survey requested by VRT (the national broadcaster here in Belgium) and the newspaper De Standaard shows that 60% of Flemish people are in favor of replacing democracy with a technocracy – a form of government in which experts make decisions instead of democratically elected politicians. In fact, 35% also want a strong leader "who doesn't have to worry about parliament and elections".
A survey is just a survey, of course. In the same study, 81% of respondents also say they swear by a democratic system. These conflicting results could mean anything. That the survey should not be taken seriously. Or that man doesn’t always know what he desires.
In any case, I assume that VRT is not surprised by the population's inclination for technocracy. Have they not done exactly this in the last three years: created public broadcasting in which politicians were put behind society's school desks as children and the ‘experts’ as teachers at the front of the class? Let me add right away: I’m not surprised that the mainstream media has chosen this approach. And certainly not that part of the population goes along with it. Within the dominant view of man and the world, this choice is not only perfectly logical, it is an ethical duty.
The materialistic worldview considers the universe and everything in it as a big machine that can be rationally understood to its core. It makes perfect sense then that decision-making is left to experts – people with the most rational knowledge about the workings of the machine. On what grounds would you allow a democratically-elected politician to make decisions when the machine malfunctions, for example, during pandemics and climate crises? That's not just stupid; it would be criminal.
Technocracy is the inevitable result of a worldview according to which the essence of life can be rationally understood. So the question arises: is that correct? I see some people frown: "How would facts and laws of nature behave, other than rationally? Science’s success proves that, doesn't it?” Well, that depends on your opinion of science.
Science, on the one hand, is an impressive accumulation of rational knowledge. It has given us high-speed internet and nuclear bombs. On the other hand, it also shows us in an unparalleled way that the essence of life always eludes rational understanding and control. For example, the behavior of elementary material particles is completely absurd from a rational point of view. Nobel Prize laureate and physicist Niels Bohr expressed this with these winged words: “When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as poetry”.
Complex dynamical systems theory shows us even more clearly: every complex and dynamic system – and that includes most phenomena in nature – ultimately behaves like an irrational number. It can begin to behave chaotically at any time and then become completely rationally unpredictable.
Therefore, rational knowledge is always and eternally incomplete and in motion. What is scientifically correct today will be obsolete tomorrow. In its journey forward, science does not follow a straight line. It circles around the object it is trying to understand, swinging in an unpredictable way.
Tomorrow's scientific knowledge may say the opposite of today's scientific knowledge. According to Niels Bohr – I defer to him once again – that is characteristic of any advanced theory: it ends in paradox. Sailing on the compass of rational knowledge, therefore, is like sailing on a compass that steers north today and south tomorrow.
Science is undeniably one of the greatest achievements humanity has ever produced and we must walk the path of rational analysis to the end again and again. But rational knowledge is not the end goal of the journey. Nor can it be the guiding principle of life. The technocratic idea is incredibly naive in this regard.
So, if not technocracy, what can be that guiding principle? Scientists have already started to answer that question. In the words of Renée Thom, mathematician and founder of systems theory: if you study an object rationally long enough, you develop the ability to ‘get into the skin of it’. You get a certain feel for it, in the same way as an art student suddenly gets a feel for his craft.
It is at this point that technical-rational knowledge takes a qualitative leap and becomes a form of truth that the ancient Greeks referred to as techné. Rational knowledge is always a form of external knowledge; techné, on the other hand, corresponds to a sense of the interior, and essence, of the object.
If the object to be known is another human being, or a society, or human existence itself, then this “interior” knowledge allows people to really connect with each other in an essential and meaningful way, allows a leader to get in touch with the people he leads, and allows man to discover the essence of his own existence. As such, this kind of knowing offers a solution to the greatest ailments of our time: the loneliness and fragmentation of society, the degeneration of leadership into bureaucratic tyranny, and a growing sense of life's meaninglessness.
We can thus interpret the idea of a knowledge-led society in two ways. A technocracy is a form of government based on technological control and technical-rational knowledge; a “technécracy” is a society based on techné – a kind of intuitive knowing to which rational-technical knowledge is only the prelude.
Perhaps it is precisely this last kind of society that people are really looking for when they indicate in one and the same survey that they desire both a technocracy and a democracy.
The desire for technocracy – or technécracy?
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This is a true story. I watched an hour long interview with Tim Ballard, the subject of this movie, and Jim Caviezel. Tim quit his job as a Department of Homeland Security Special Agent so that he could literally, 'save the kids'.
He is 'The Real Deal'. Jim Caviezel is the actor who plays him in this movie.
These men are literally doing 'God's Work', Tim, by performing this work, and Jim by shining a light on this literal EVIL that is among us. For instance, at my workplace, two men were fired and incarcerated within the last 6 months for child pornography. That happened because they were 'incautious' enought to watch it on a government computer. Think of how many are watching on their private computers, and don't get caught. This is a huge problem worldwide, and our country is a primary contributor to this (no other word for it but)…….. Pure Evil.
We have a moral obligation to do what we can to fight against this….
Please help.
Please take a material step and stand up for goodness, on this Independence Day.
Thank you, Elizabeth
These are my thoughts: people refuse to be independent thinkers, they choose to follow. Why? because that's how they were brought up by their parents and parents before them, nothing has changed for millennia, THEY GIVE AWAY THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO THEMSELVES TO THINK. So what is IT that makes people go numb and brain dead ? one word and its called 'Religion'. People need a strong jolt to wake them up from their stupor or else they will continue allowing themselves to be brainwashed with tv/media/social media etc.
People choose to absolve themselves from all responsibilities to their own evolution, to their responsibilities to creation = nature, to every human being, to the environment. They only see themselves and their need to survive, they dont care HOW to survive as long as they can watch tv and gossip in banalities and shallow conversations, they are happy to drink themselves into the grave. No matter how much you or others will tell them and explain that each human being has a responsibility to oneself and to creation, they will not grasp it, they need to be jolted from their comfort zones of idiocy. That jolt is coming... not just the jolt of the reset which I dont think will be fully implemented, but even more serious destructive events that cannot be prevented if US government refuses to act.
Everyone hates Russia because governments have been 'ordered' to brain wash their citizens into believing that they are the monster, the facts are very different. Global Peace will emanate from Russia.
Still, when people follow some gods or tin gods and argue whose gods is better and stronger, how can a society evolve? Maybe there are too many of us as 9.3 Billion hungry locusts devouring the foods that keep the animals, the insects, the birds all flora and fauna alive, the more of us the more we pollute destroy all waters, air, forests etc., and then in our ignorance we believe what leaders tell us to follow. Isn't this an idiotic way of life? AI is here, so how many people are needed on the planet to do the jobs of 100 people? People fight for a job to sustain their material life style without one iota of thought going towards the consideration of creational existence. In a fact we ARE destroying ourselves and now it will be done for us further.
In my view what needs to happen urgently is to be bold and tell men and women to take responsibility for their own bodies, namely to use contraception if they cannot afford a home with clean food and decent shelter, isnt it more ethical and morally just to prevent a disaster rather than create it and having no means to solve our created problems?
I will give a clear reason to think about: when a person realises that he/she is a re-incarnation of a previous personality yet carrying the same spirit form that has been reincarnating over and over and over... and is a part of this universal creation therefore, no creator no guru, no shaman, no priest or rabbi-that's all fabricated lies to enslave the consciousness of the masses, then he/she will stop ignoring and stomping on ones conscience and instead let oneself feel the rightly created thoughts, and thats when actions will come to the fore individually.
NO god and NO tin god will solve this planet's problems, no alien invasion either (although it is planned as a last resort to have people totally submit hence, people should wake up to themselves and start trusting themselves, thus looking within to find that connection that connects us all to a universal creational existence since time immemorial.
DO NOT FOLLOW... THINK FOR YOURSELF !