- 03 Aug 2014 16:37
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!
I have been wondering where Technocracy fits into the Reactionary Political Model or if indeed it fits in this model at all.
I have come to the conclusion that it is a form of utopian bureaucracy. It is bureaucracy because, although hierarchy is apparently valued, the top most level is not apparently held by either a singular executive (monarchy), a smallish group of "best" men (aristocracy), or even a relative minority of visible mob leaders (democracy), but by a fairly substantial number of senior technical experts.
Another indicator is the degree to which loyalty plays in maintaining the social order. In a monarchy loyalty is pre-eminent, aristocracy less so, democracy still less and in bureaucracy barely. Anarchy of course is where loyalty is entirely vanished and social order with it.
Yet another indicator is the awareness of the correlation between real political authority and military power. Monarchy (maximum awareness), Aristocracy (a bit less), Democracy (still less - political authority is identified with the temporary affections of noisy mobs according to how large and noisy the mob "army" is), Bureaucracy (nearly absent - political authority is held to exist but is not identified with anything real and tangible).
It is utopian bureaucracy because it takes something mundane, degenerate and already existing and drapes it in a messianic idealisation that promises to make everything perfect (somehow).
I have come to the conclusion that it is a form of utopian bureaucracy. It is bureaucracy because, although hierarchy is apparently valued, the top most level is not apparently held by either a singular executive (monarchy), a smallish group of "best" men (aristocracy), or even a relative minority of visible mob leaders (democracy), but by a fairly substantial number of senior technical experts.
Another indicator is the degree to which loyalty plays in maintaining the social order. In a monarchy loyalty is pre-eminent, aristocracy less so, democracy still less and in bureaucracy barely. Anarchy of course is where loyalty is entirely vanished and social order with it.
Yet another indicator is the awareness of the correlation between real political authority and military power. Monarchy (maximum awareness), Aristocracy (a bit less), Democracy (still less - political authority is identified with the temporary affections of noisy mobs according to how large and noisy the mob "army" is), Bureaucracy (nearly absent - political authority is held to exist but is not identified with anything real and tangible).
It is utopian bureaucracy because it takes something mundane, degenerate and already existing and drapes it in a messianic idealisation that promises to make everything perfect (somehow).
The solution to 1984 is 1973!