Public Meltdown technocracy.1
Following a series of poor business decisions, … has taken to lashing out against … detractors in the tabloids. These screeds have served to destroy … public reputation and damaged support for ….
"Low passions be praised in this theater of the damned! An era of unenlightened barbarism and puritanical populism. Only the truly mad could ever reject the benevolent rule of the enlightened few. Damned, lost sheep I name you all! Perhaps you should remain there, while I and my fellows would reap the benefits of a matrix so utopian that all would quake beneath its magnificence. And you will beg to be part of it then! Mark my words, gentlemen!"
The New Machine technocracy.2
A group of influential Engineers have greatly improved productivity in the … of … through the application of scientific principles. They suggest that under … they would be able to apply these principles to the mechanicisms of government.
A salient point of intelligence is understanding one's limitations. Through this comes the recognition that one's experience is finite and subject to perspective. Without this pillar, human intelligence is prone to hubris. For example, someone may conceive the idea that it is possible to treat bureaucracy as a machine, rather than the cluster of skills that it is. Thusly, treat humans as problems to solve, rather than independent variables with experience and intelligence of their own.
Elitists! technocracy.3
Debate rages between Academics at the … of … over the issue of popular governance versus rule by an enlightened elite. The argument has captured public attention due to the ongoing effort to establish a ….
"Unless, said I, either philosophers become kings in our states or those whom we now call our kings and rulers take to the pursuit of philosophy seriously and adequately, and there is a conjunction of these two things, political power and philosophic intellgence, while the motley horde of the natures who at present pursue either apart from the other are compulsory excluded, there can be no cessation of troubles, dear Glaucon, for our states, nor, I fancy, for the human race either."
Improvement Under Science technocracy.4
… has experienced a period of internal stability and consistent improvement under … governance. Formerly-skeptical segments of society have widely come to accept … as the ideal form of government.
"In Technocracy, we see science replacing an economy of scarcity with an economy of abundance. In Technocracy we see functional competence displacing grotesque and wasteful incompetence, facts displacing guesswork, order displacing disorder, industrial planning displacing industrial chaos. Technocracy is the attempt of science to build a civilization worthy of the intelligence of Man." — Howard Scott, "Technocracy: Science vs. Chaos"
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