[Craic] Saturday Craic link every Saturday 10:30AM EDT Technocracy today

[Arthur Blomme]

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Hi all

I received a request to try to focus the meetings better.  I thought 
that we could try this by discussing the role of technocracy in our 
current context.

Regards Art

On 6/30/21 6:29 p.m., Arthur Blomme via craic wrote:
>
> Hi Bob
>
> That Ideas piece confirms a lot of my understanding of the history of 
> Technocracy accept it doesn't deal with the role of the technocrats in 
> the third Reich. My interest in technocracy was piqued by Laudato Si 
> where the technocratic paradigm is considered to be the cause of our 
> worlds major environmental problems.  Francis says of the technocrats
>
>     technology tends to absorb everything into its own cloud like
>     logic and those who are surrounded with technology know full well
>     that it moves forward in the final analysis neither for profit nor
>     for the well being of the human race and that in the most radical
>     sense of the term, power is its motive -- a lordship over
>     all.(laudato si 108)
>
> I don't know if you read this paper of mine.(attached)  I sent it out 
> a year ago,   hoping there would be some discussion generated.
>
> I have noticed that in Europe Global socialists like Yanis Varoufakis 
> of Diem25 <https://diem25.org/en/> use the term technocracy to 
> understand class struggle and the rising dominance of techno 
> feudalism.  Technocracy did not go quietly into the sunset as the Idea 
> program suggests.
>
> Be well
>
> Art
>
>
> On 6/30/21 4:51 a.m., Rob Anderson wrote:
>> Art,
>>
>> You might be interested in this.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>
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