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>Yet today’s American political right is not very interested in technocracy. That is a deeply weird statement to make in 2026.
by lbrito 8mo ago
>Yet today’s American political right is not very interested in technocracy.
That is a deeply weird statement to make in 2026.
- wk_end 8mo agoI think you're (understandably) interpreting "technocrat" differently than what the author intends and what it's historically meant. Technocrats form the foundation of the so-called "deep state" that Trump rails against: unelected bureaucrats - scientists, economists, doctors, researchers, engineers, statisticians - controlling low-level government policy (ideally) on the basis of data and knowledge of their particular field. What it doesn't mean is "a government run on the insane whims of coked-up techno-utopian billionaire tech CEOs", which is what the current right seems to be interested in.
- voidhorse 8mo agoRight, authoritarian oligarchy is much closer to what certain parties desire here in the States. Is unfortunate that the prospective oligarchs chose technology as their vehicle (of both oligarchy and authority, via surveillance, of course), and it's even more unfortunate that we let them do so.