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Technocracy:
“I am not talking about the engineers or scientists becoming politicians. That was tried in 1930 in Technocracy wherein the engineer-scientists were to muster a host of disgruntled engineers and, taking guns, seize the post offices. They proposed gaining their ends by reverting to the physical power tactics of the pirates and their politicians. But the scientists and engineers enlisted were too honest to be good politicians. Technocracy failed before it got going. So the prospect is that we are going to have to follow the medical scientists’ successful precedent of minding everybody’s physical success business while avoiding any interference whatsoever from the clients or [redacted]; interference with the clients’ metaphysical freedoms. We are going to have to do so by holding ourselves exclusively to reforming the inanimate environment, to make it able to support all men without ever resorting to the politicians’ policy of would-be reformation of the human beings-- their thought processes, their initiatives, and their wills,”
