>When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues. Well, if you want to implement that, you'd have to abandon democracy and follow the C

>When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues. Well, if you want to implement that, you'd have to abandon democracy and follow the Chinese model of a one-party state. You cannot force people to vote for scientists, rather than demagogues. Technocrats would have to be appointed rather than elected.