The problem with the federal government is not financial. It is institutional.

The technocracy has the upper hand against the white working class, although it is a tenuous hand, as can be seen by the election of Donald Trump. But this is merely the opening confrontation.

and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.

Congress passes laws that are basically intentions funded with federal dollars. Experts interpret the intention and create regulations that are intended to implement the intentions. They then administer the regulations. The connection between the intention and the regulation is frequently incidental, but the regulations are so complex and the

For most of the 2020s, the driving economic force will be low growth in productivity, decreased opportunities for investment of accumulated capital, and low interest rates. It will also be a period of increasing unemployment, driven by continued decline in industry and stagnation in high tech as the result of the maturation of the core technology.

First, the governing class, and the technocrats, accumulate power and wealth, and they begin to shape the institutions to protect their interests.

The university is at the heart of both the problem and the solution. It also becomes the center of a political battle.

Therefore, as in all social fears, there will be an increasing belief in the coming decade that the federal government is in the hands of conspirators. Such a conspiracy was unthinkable in the two prior institutional cycles, because federal power was simply not that vast. But in the 2020s the image of the federal government will make deliberate

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.