Technocracy // "God" is Dead pt. 2
Progress of technology exploded in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This was due to the Industrial Revolution. As we entered the 20th century, it became apparent to the intellectual elites, that technicians and scientist would inevitably run our governments and the World. In 1919, a man by the name William H. Smyth wrote an article titled: Technocracy – Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy. He used the term to refer to industrial democracy, where servants such as engineers and scientists are incorporated in the decision-making process. They argued that a society headed by technical experts would be more productive and rational. The movement was founded in 1932. They proposed replacing government with technocrats such as scientists and engineers who possessed the necessary skills and experience to manage the economy. This movement is alive and well in the 21st century with the rise of personal CPU's, internet, smartphones and artificial intelligence.
In the 1930's we saw the rise of Nazism or National-Socialism, which Hitler and his cohorts at the - National Socialist German Workers' Party, introduced to the eager curious minds of young socialist intellectuals. With it came a deeper shift towards organization and collectivism. After the death of Stalin in 1953, Russia declined, and we saw an emerging China take the reins. This branch became - Maoism which is a combo of - Nazism, Stalinism, and Fascism. In 1989 the Berlin wall was destroyed ending the Iron curtains assault on the mind of East Germans, Eastern Europeans, and the Russians who were ensnared in the teeth of an Authoritarian-Totalitarian regime. Also, in 1989 in Bejing, the Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred. More than one million people flooded into central Beijing, keen to vent their anger against corruption, economic mismanagement, nepotism and poor career prospects for students. Gathering in Tiananmen Square, the students erected their own Goddess of Democracy statue opposite the official portrait of the Communist revolutionary leader Chairman Mao Zedong. After weeks of protests in the square, troops backed by tanks crushed the demonstrations, prompting global condemnation. The footage of a lone protester standing in front of a line of tanks has become one of the most powerful symbols of the 20th century. This historical event was sparked by the aforementioned, fall of the wall in Berlin, it was symbolic of all communist states around the world shaking as they were holding the mind captive of its inhabitants.
Let us fast forward to the eight years of Obama, we began to see a deeper yearning for change, collectivism, and modernization, especially of the hearts of Progressives and young campus-communists. In Obama's 2008 inauguration speech in which he prophetically summons the future and rise of scientism and technocracy. The dramatic push that he and the rest of the technocrats want, is to foster the new anxiety driven fear of climate-change. This was the new canary in the coal mine for young intellectual elites rising up the ranks in colleges. This generation would become the torchbearers of a future communist army, with the climate-change agenda leashed around their neck as a dog to its master's hand, pulling them into a technological utopia.
We have seen in colleges around the nation, a separation of the Conservatives (Traditionalism) and the Liberals (Progressivism). What we are witnessing is a spiritual revolution of thought, ideas, and religion. A milieu and a new Zeitgeist have emerged. In my opinion this was Obama's main task. He paved the way for a deeper yearn for communism. With the most progressive regime ever, rivaled only to FDR's new deal. Upon careful study one can see a pattern emerge. Each evolutionary epoch of socialism got more national, collective, organized, and modern in rapid haste. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago before running for office, this shows what most modern Leftist are after, and that is organizing people into groups our communities. Ted Kaczynski wrote about these modern Leftist in ISAIF:
"Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology. Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole. But this implies management of nature and of human life by organized society, and it requires advanced technology. You can't have a united world without rapid transportation and communication, you can't make all people love one another without sophisticated psychological techniques, you can't have a "planned society" without the necessary technological base. Above all, leftism is driven by the need for power, and the leftist seeks power on a collective basis, through identification with a mass movement or an organization. Leftism is unlikely ever to give up technology, because technology is too valuable a source of collective power." par. 214)
What does Ted realize? That the modern Leftist thirst for power and control is in their nature, they must help coagulate people into groups. They and they alone fit the need for totalitarianism. Is the pattern clear now? Let's look at authoritarian-totalitarianism. What does it mean? The definition is - to require people to obey rules or laws and not allowing personal freedom with a centralized control by an autocratic authority, and that citizens should be totally subject to an absolute state authority. If we think back to Sept. 11th, 2001, what happened after that psy-op mass casualty event. More security and more control into the hands of TPTB. On the talking head show called - The View, Sara Haines touches on this very thought(1:25 mark). The War on the people has been waged again with the C19 psy-op. The only thing that will remain, will be all the Draconian measures, and a new vigorous worship for science and the intellectuals. They want absolute control of your life; over every breath you take. You are made of carbon, and it is you who put a burden on society. We as free individuals must be controlled and constantly monitored; all of this of course is for our own safety.
Modernization A Call For Progress
The key to understanding how this pattern has evolved is - Modernization. Robert A. Issak wrote about Mao and his thirst for modernization in: Individuals and World Politics
"When revolution occurs in a traditional society the first priorities of the ruling elite become security and modernization. Once it comes into power the revolutionary regime is transformed from a creative to a maintenance force. Yet to maintain its legitimacy and integrity, leaders of the revolutionary movement must sustain an image of revolutionary, creativity, and modernize traditional institutions to satisfy the needs of the people and strengthen national security. Modernization, in short, is the transformation of a traditional society into a more efficient and productive organization of economic, political, and social institutions. When Mao came into power, he wanted to secure his position and simultaneously make China into a model communist society for the world. The immediate goal of modernization is to increase the range of options or choices of the governing elite." pg. 91)
"As less developed societies strive for rapid modernization, the temptation to use totalitarian solutions and authoritarian leaders will be great indeed, if not irresistible. Moreover, in advanced industrial and post-industrial societies, technology gives rise to its own kinds of authoritarianism and repression which are as powerful as those of avowedly totalitarian states. In One-Dimensional Man, radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse argued that "Americans are being psychosocially reduced to a single dimension, and he warned that technology has the potential power to repress human freedom." Technology has refined the role of torture in order to transform it into an administrative means to govern in both the physical and psychological realms. The Nazi concentration camps were examples of the ultimate abuse of modern technology if it is not carefully related to humanistic values. The technological coercion of consumerism through the media is a less harmful variety of repression but is repression and mind control, nevertheless. Such consumerism for its own sake does have human implications in a world where millions are suffering from hunger and real needs while a fortunate minority is persuaded to seek continually to satisfy needs that are artificially created by the media. Furthermore, the excessive stimulation toward violence on television is another example of the dehumanizing and repressive powers of technology that are not guided by humanistic moral standards.... As a nation state becomes modernized through technology, its amount of technologically exploitable knowledge increases without a similar advancement in the creation of democratic controls of such technology. In short, the purposive reason behind the scientism of technological knowledge is the desire of the technocratic elites to manipulate the masses for their own ends.... From Hitler we should learn what can result if we give up individual responsibility and willpower to technological experts and superman, if we give up critical thinking for the sake of simplistic solutions that appeal to our prejudices and material comfort, and if we go along with the easy conformity of national mass-movements rather that picking our way slowly through the social world to fight for our individual freedom of choice." pg. 171)
"...it's about creating a one‐world government, and orthodox Jews along with fundamentalist Christians, or any Christian for that matter, who will not renounce Christ as divine, incarnate of God, in flesh upon this earth. Any follower for the prophet Mohamed, anyone who will not bow down to this new religion will be destroyed…will be destroyed."
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
After these philosophical writings of Nietzsche, rose Hitler who took the writings of Nietzsche and applied them to his Nazi machine. Nietzsche was having an immense internal struggle with what the day would look like without God and religion. Nietzche died in 1900, fourteen years later WWI began or the Great War. This new evolved state of government began. We would see and feel an explosion of technology and misery as Nietzche did upon his death bed. The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engles also wrote about the end of religion:
"Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience. What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs. But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, the exploitation of one part of society by the other. No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages, despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with the total disappearance of class antagonisms. The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism. We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be affected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production." pg. 58)
The times of the individual person will change to the collective body or whole. The pattern that has emerged is a gradual but drastic change that really kicked off with the - Age of Enlightenment. Now here we are in 2022 and the individual's right that we used to hold dear, is now a dying deer in a desolate wilderness with only the trees to hear his cry...
Pt. 2
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