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technocracy, aka the progressive movement, aka the acknowledged antecedents of most this thread's political views -- funny how things change

• Hikikomori 1y ago
  Musks grandfather was part of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada before it was banned, then moved to south Africa as Canada wasn't racist enough.
• biophysboy 1y ago
  The alliance between tech and progressivism did not really exist until the 80s. Even then it’s always been tenuous and contradictory.
  • p3rls 1y ago
    imagine being this fucking stupid and still opening your mouth. read a book about the era instead of getting your views from wikipedia and marvel movies retard but for you, my dear retard, i'll make an exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_movement
• const_cast 1y ago
  Progressiveness is like waves of wind. It comes and it goes, and it goes more often then it comes. We have extremely brief sections of time where a lot of progressiveness is achieved, and then we have longer periods of darkness where we stagnate or regress. Reconstruction, followed by Jim Crow. The late 70s had a period of progressiveness, of openness, especially towards homosexuals. Then AIDS came, and that was all forgotten. The 80s were another dark age. In the 90s we had another brief opening, but that too ended sooner than it started. We didn't pick up until the 2010s. By 2014/2015 progressiveness was on the way out, just in time for marriage equality to push through. And now, we are in another dark period and have been for a while. Technocracy just follow wherever the wind blows. Progressiveness will come back, and hopefully we can push enough through that we'll be set for the next decade to come. That's really what it's all about - get as much done as fast as possible, so that it cannot all be reverted, no matter how hard conservatives try.