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Technocracy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the will to power of men who have knowledge but not power: the knowledge of technics without the money to deploy it or the law to free it from limits.

Technocracy (n.) lasts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only while there is something to conquer: Saint-Simonism triumphed when there were railways to lay and tunnels to pierce, and with no internal brake it can only run on the rise.

Technocracy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Faust's dream played out by a whole society: to pierce an isthmus or bridge a sea is to undermine the earth's natural integrity and to name oneself foreman of creation.

Technocracy (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the blanket refusal of technics are twins born from knowing many machines one by one but never the relations among them.

Technocracy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where idolizing the machine ends up: a longing for unconditional power, with the machine as its love-potion.

Technocracy (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never speak for everyone, because it remakes the world as a blank field for machines to push into.