The Rise of Vetocracy
Through sheer will and ingenuity, we have constructed a civilization of unparalleled comfort and abundance—a monument to progress, undeniable in its achievements. And yet, beneath this polished façade, something festers.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
The institutional crisis is rooted in two things. First, the governing class, and the technocrats, accumulate power and wealth, and they begin to shape the institutions to protect their interests. The second problem is that the expertise that won World War II and built the postwar world is now encountering its own problem of inefficiency—diffusion.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
There appears to have been a profound shift, beginning in the 1970s, from investment in technologies associated with the possibility of alternative futures to investment technologies that furthered labor discipline and social control
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Because it invents new ways of doing things and assumes that progress comes from intellectual activity, the technocracy is also seen as a revolt against tradition and traditional values.