Two things from the web- This was a movement from the 1930's- yet it resonates with todays world pretty accurately- especially with the world view of the separation of classes-
"The social and economic system proposed by the Technocratic movement and the organization Technocracy, Inc., which believes that modern technology and a government organized on a scientific basis can lead to a society of abundance."
We have made a commitment to technology and we are living this abundance, it has paid handsomely- but at what cost? What cost to our planet, our children's lives and our future as a race?
Another clip that came to my attention:
"Like an Old Testament prophet, David Walker has been traveling the country, urging people to "wake up before it's too late."
But David Walker is no wild-eyed zealot. David Walker is an accountant, the nation’s top accountant to be exact, the comptroller general of the United States. He has totaled up our government's income, liabilities, and future obligations and concluded the numbers simply don’t add up. And he’s not alone.
Its been called the "dirty little secret everyone in Washington knows" – a set of financial truths so inconvenient that most elected officials don’t even want to talk about them, which is exactly why David Walker does.
"I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility," says Walker.
The entire story below- Why isn't anyone talking about this?
http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_story_063203213.html
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2 comments:
ooh, I saw him on 60 minutes (or one of those news magazine shows) and I thought he was brilliant.
My best guess is that he'll be replaced any day now.
It is a conservative principal bandied about since the Regan era - a feeling that government should be limited and allow people to stand on their own feet - an "ownership" society. But the current adminstration in its zeal to capture that Utopian (Dystopian??) ideal have gone about it like everything else they have touched - completely bungled and inept. The conservative secret plan is to bankrupt the Federal Government so that it will only provide military protection - all social programs will crumble under the debt load.
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