NOTE: Part 2 of this series is here.
Technocrats are people who believe that, because they have expertise in a subject matter, then they ought to be able to tell others what to do. In Soviet Russia, a panel of technocrats attempted to set the prices of 22 million goods and services by fiat (without the quick and local feedback from market mechanisms).
Because they were “smart” they thought that they ought to be able to tell others at what price to set their goods and services. But their control over prices merely cut the living standards of Russians by two-thirds when compared to the Americans:
The consumption level is gray-shaded (middle bars) and is reported as a percentage of the corresponding USA value. While there are some in every culture, technocrats come mostly from Asia and Eastern Europe and Ludwig von Mises once called them “Asiatic coolies.”
As if missing an important chip in their brains, they think they can control things.
Importantly, experience, such as condemning your own population to living standards of only a third of the rest of the world, does not appear to instruct them — they just keep trodding along with control schemes, thinking that, at some point, they will successfully “play God.”
The technocratic takeover of Western institutions began in earnest after the Patriot Act was put into effect in the USA. Here is the relative frequency of the phrase “Great Reset” in books published just after the Patriot Act was put into effect as a means of societal control:
By the peak of publishing in 2012, Western institutions had been more-or-less fully captured by technocratic interests. Even Hollywood had been captured, causing actor Anthony Mackie to comment on how good movies no longer come out of Hollywood, and the only movies made are either made for 16 year-olds, or Chinese bureaucrats.
Mr. Mackie said “16-year-olds and China” — but that’s the same thing.
And here is the peak online interest in the Great Reset, which occurred just as the interim reports of the phase 3 clinical trials of mRNA shots were being sent to the FDA (mid-November, 2020):
I believe that values above are normalized to the peak value, so that the peak value gets a score of 100, or 100%. If that is true, then 25% of the peak interest in a Great Reset still remained at the beginning of 2022 — when the relatively-mild Omicron variant COVID began to predominate.
Evidence suggests that a cabal of technocrats successfully infiltrated Western institutions and have built up and used a Surveillance State apparatus, directing the power of government against citizens, and oppressing freedom-loving people based on notions of rampant racism (George Floyd incident) and a virus (COVID fiasco).
People must push back against a technocratic takeover, before it is too late.