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"A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its
borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this
group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists
with big ideas about how to rearrange US society. They proposed a vision that
would get rid of waste and make North America highly productive by using
technology and science.
The Technocrats, sometimes also called Technocracy Inc, proposed merging
Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the US and parts of central America into a single
continental unit. This they called a “Technate”. It was to be governed by
technocratic principles, rather than by national borders and traditional
political divisions.
These ideas seem to resonate with some recent statements from the Trump
administration about merging the US with Canada. Meanwhile, the US Department
of Government Efficiency (Doge) set up by Trump and led by tech billionaire
Elon Musk, has also outlined a vision of efficiency cuts by slashing
bureaucracy, jobs and getting rid of leaders of organisations and civil
servants he thinks are advancing “woke” values (such as diversity initiatives).
This slash-and-burn approach also fits with some of the ideas of the
Technocrats.
In February, Musk said: “We really have here rule of the bureaucracy as opposed
to rule of the people — democracy”. The Technocrats viewed elected politicians
as incompetent. They advocated replacing them with experts in science and
engineering, who would “objectively” manage resources for the benefit of
society.
“The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are
going to get,” Musk told reporters after visiting the White House last month."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
