TIL The Technocracy movement is still active today. They seek to revolutionize the social structure and create a society without crime, debt, or war. This trough replacing politicians with scientists and engineers, politics with science, and make North America a self-sufficient continent.

Relevant information:


-Wikipedia page on Technocracy

-Wikipedia on Technocracy Movement


Active website: www.technocracyinc.org


Society

For centuries people have dreamed of an age of peace and plenty, an age without crime, debt – or war! Would you believe that this North American Continent already has the above requirements to make that happen?

Technocracy’s Technological Continental Design has been ready for installation for over 80 years.

The small fraction of the population that controls our society today, has decided that it alone has the right to determine the direction of the whole society. Not too surprisingly, this consists of them continuing to do what they have been doing, only more of it. It is this mysterious “they” who decide what the whole society is to think and what ideas are fit for public consumption. This problem alone would indicate the need for social change – a change from the historical domestic confrontations or “revolutions” that in the past only resulted in a change of characters while the society in question regressed back to the same old problem. Technocracy would go beyond that and put in place a genuine revolution that would begin the way for society to truly achieve the enhancement of the human condition.

Core Values

  • Equal access to the basic amenities of life: It is one of our core views that all human beings must have access to the basic amenities of life, and thus they must be made available and accessible to all. This includes potable water, adequate food, shelter, and basic health care.

  • Quality of life: Improving the quality of life for all human beings is our ultimate goal, and thus must be reflected in all of our policies and actions.

  • Inclusion & accessibility: We maintain that all policies enacted and advocated must be inclusive and accessible to all citizens, and we hope to make life more affordable for everyone.

  • Respect: We acknowledge that society is made up of multi-faceted and diverse people, with varying opinions, and although we might disagree at times, we respect all of those opinions.

  • Accountability: We aim to make the government more accountable for their actions and their promises.

Vision

  • More accurate and fair distribution of wealth and resources

  • Abundance as much of a basic right in life as clean water, food and shelter

  • Government, social and economic decisions being made based on facts, benefit to man and common sense, rather than on political bias, corporate profit and corruption

  • An end to crime

  • An Education system that accommodates multi-faceted and diverse people with varying learning styles and is equally available to everyone.

Mission

Inform, Educate, Empower and Collaborate

Objectives

  • To inform and educate the public on how our current government and social structure creates a lack of abundance and struggle for the general population.

  • To empower the people by showing them another way.

  • To gather people who are interested in assisting in the process of developing our alternative government and social structure.


In a publication from 1938 Technocracy Inc. the main organization made the following statement in defining their proposal:

"Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism toproduce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem.There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers.

Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange.

Technocracy states that price and abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandoning the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death.

The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit."

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