So RFK,Jr. was the Bernie Sanders for the Right, to pull in some Lefties. Bernie was to pull in some of the right to the Democratic Party. Neither had a chance, they servied a "higher" purpose. The old ping pong game as Whitney Webb calls the action between the two distracting "teams," red vs. blue.
I'm doing an assignment this week on technocracy's involvement in an architectural and design context (funnily enough, it's for a planned apartment building in Santa Monica [we hear in your conversation with Joy you lived there at one point]). Do you have any sources, links or names to point to who might be more experts or who've discussed that aspect of technocracy, Courtenay? Presumably somebody's going to have to design, and eventually build, all these smart city utopias', after all...
Also, I seem to recall there is a Gnostic strain within designers like Buckminster Fuller...I'll have to look into that more myself, I guess. The thought leaders in technocracy, at least today, seem to be Tech Bros and Silicone Valley types, more so than the developers or architects, or other professional classes (maybe I'm wrong).
I just purchased a copy of yours and Patrick's new book - looks fun(ish)! I got my drive-time audio lined up for next week with your conversation with Joy. Thanks!
P.S.: are there any redeemable aspects of the technocratic movement, in your opinion? Is there anything from this technocratic vision that could be incorporated for the good? In some respects, it seems inevitable (like collectivism), for a species eventually (i.e. space-faring, 'off-planet colonization for survival' type of stuff). despite its obvious odorousness. I dunno...I'm trying to work with the dialects of technocracy and anarcho-primitivism, lol. Perhaps I'm equating more benign or even beneficial aspects of 'futurism' with technocracy in this thought process...
So RFK,Jr. was the Bernie Sanders for the Right, to pull in some Lefties. Bernie was to pull in some of the right to the Democratic Party. Neither had a chance, they servied a "higher" purpose. The old ping pong game as Whitney Webb calls the action between the two distracting "teams," red vs. blue.
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I'm doing an assignment this week on technocracy's involvement in an architectural and design context (funnily enough, it's for a planned apartment building in Santa Monica [we hear in your conversation with Joy you lived there at one point]). Do you have any sources, links or names to point to who might be more experts or who've discussed that aspect of technocracy, Courtenay? Presumably somebody's going to have to design, and eventually build, all these smart city utopias', after all...
Also, I seem to recall there is a Gnostic strain within designers like Buckminster Fuller...I'll have to look into that more myself, I guess. The thought leaders in technocracy, at least today, seem to be Tech Bros and Silicone Valley types, more so than the developers or architects, or other professional classes (maybe I'm wrong).
I just purchased a copy of yours and Patrick's new book - looks fun(ish)! I got my drive-time audio lined up for next week with your conversation with Joy. Thanks!
P.S.: are there any redeemable aspects of the technocratic movement, in your opinion? Is there anything from this technocratic vision that could be incorporated for the good? In some respects, it seems inevitable (like collectivism), for a species eventually (i.e. space-faring, 'off-planet colonization for survival' type of stuff). despite its obvious odorousness. I dunno...I'm trying to work with the dialects of technocracy and anarcho-primitivism, lol. Perhaps I'm equating more benign or even beneficial aspects of 'futurism' with technocracy in this thought process...