¶ Technocracy
Index Entry
The "natural evolution of intellectual accomplishment for the many by the few is the antithesis of such reverse gear schemes as Technocracy which sought to establish an autocracy of engineers schematically similar in aim to national socialism. Technocracy sought to convert the engineer to the role of politician. But the engineer proved no more effective than the most ignorant and slothful in the ballot box game, and much too forthright by training to be a good politician. Superficially saleable as an inviting scheme Technocracy failed as an ‘out’ for society primarily because the engineer must vacate his creative and causal function for a negative and restraining function.
¶ Citations
- Part II., Earth, Inc. Fuller Research Foundation Yellow typescript, p. 9, 1947
