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"For the purpose of this article, technocracy, bureaucracy and meritocracy are the same thing: It's a class of people who got their jobs based on their capabili
by eternalban 5y ago
"For the purpose of this article, technocracy, bureaucracy and meritocracy are the same thing: It's a class of people who got their jobs based on their capabilities. The counterpart is the political class, the people who get their jobs based on their political views and/or their loyalty."
It seems to me that this basically begs the question of whether "merit" is an objective measure in a politicized society. Beyond that immediate critique, it is rather sloppy to equate facility with a domain of techne (technocracy) with facility in an organizational setting (bureaucracy), and a political system (meritocracy).
Alphabet Inc. is a nascent form of global technocracy. CIA is an established above-the-law bureaucracy. Meritocracy is a political system, with CPC possibly a legitimate du jour [overt] example. (We do have the equivalent of CPC and meritocracy in the West but it is entirely occult (in the strict sense of the word) and behind the curtain ala Wizard of Oz.)
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To address any possible misunderstanding regarding my comment and view point in context of the operative political regime in the (so called) Western world, note that it is informed by a historical scope that by necessity starts at the Reformation in Europe. I am of the opinion that a political perspective that is framed by contemporary personalities and events is hopelessly myopic and distorted.
- rendang 5y agoIn what manner does Alphabet Inc. represent technocracy? What do they rule over? Do you mean that they have a great deal of indirect power over the lives of the people who use their products?
- eternalban 5y ago"nascent: "(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential: the nascent space industry." https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mountain-view-new-campus-renderings-middlefield-park-2020-9?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mountain-view-new-cam... It's hardly an original thought that we are living through major changes in societal order: a transitional period. Google and its parent company appear to be the avant-garde of an emerging societal type. We may live to see the day that individuals are born to corporate parents, schooled by that corporation, live in that corporation's cities, and end up working for that corporation. But unlike the industrial cities of the eponymous bygone era, these will be cities of technocrats, "mind workers". This will likely occur in conjunction with diminishing role of nation-states, and a more robust, overt, and assertive global governance that will play the (political/"spiritual") role of, say, Catholic Church, in the Middle Ages' Europe.