postyX - Death by Technocracy

00:00:00.320 Good evening, patriots, and welcome back to Maple Syrup and Mayhem with me, Posty.

00:00:06.920 This is part four of our short series on the loss of our inner monologue.

00:00:13.400 So tonight we are discussing part four, and we are going to be pulling back the curtain

00:00:19.420 of one of the greatest threats to our sovereignty, our culture, and our freedom in the modern

00:00:25.080 age, which is a technocracy. Not the shiny promise of efficient, expert-led governance that some of

00:00:34.440 us, or that some sell us. No, the creeping system where unelected experts, bureaucrats, scientists,

00:00:43.320 and global elites make the decisions that shape our lives, our borders, our economies, and even

00:00:50.160 what our children are taught all while telling us it's for our own good

00:00:55.520 from brussels to davos from silicon valley algorithms to central bank boardrooms

00:01:03.380 technocracy is replacing the will of the people with the rule of the clipboard and from a

00:01:11.040 nationalist perspective one that puts our nation our people and our heritage first this is not

00:01:17.940 progress. It is a quiet revolution against everything that makes a country ours. So what

00:01:25.240 does technocracy have to do with inner monologue? A technocratic society removes free thought and

00:01:31.880 therefore decreases or removes any inner monologue people may already have. What exactly is a

00:01:38.780 technocracy? Let's start with the basics. A technocracy in its purest form is government

00:01:44.740 by technical experts, engineers, scientists, economists, and administrators, rather than by

00:01:50.680 elected politicians accountable to the voters. It emerged in the early 20th century, gaining

00:01:57.880 traction during the Great Depression in the United States with groups like Technocracy, Inc.

00:02:03.880 They argued that politicians and businessmen were incompetent and that only those who understood

00:02:09.240 energy flows, production systems, and scientific management could run society efficiently.

00:02:16.220 They even proposed replacing money with energy certificates. So this was happening even early

00:02:22.540 in the 20th century. The idea has deeper roots in the progressive era's faith in scientific

00:02:30.000 management and echoes in places like the old Soviet planning apparatus or modern Singapore's

00:02:36.960 meritocratic, elite. But here's the key. Technocracy claims to be neutral and objective.

00:02:45.960 It depoliticizes decisions by framing everything as a technical problem with a single correct

00:02:53.520 solution. Does this sound familiar? Climate policy dictated by international panels,

00:03:00.740 public health mandates from global health bodies, digital speech rules written by tech executives

00:03:07.860 and regulators, monetary policy run by central bankers insulated from voters.

00:03:15.680 In theory, it sounds efficient. In practice, it's a transfer of power away from the nation state

00:03:23.540 and the people who built it towards a supranational institution and unaccountable

00:03:29.400 experts who often share a globalist worldview. Here we're going to watch a short video on just

00:03:38.260 the explanation of a technocratic society in layman's terms. Technocracy is a system of

00:03:44.580 governance where decision-making is vested in technical experts rather than elected representatives.

00:03:50.060 Let's dive straight into three key features of technocracy. The first feature is expertise-based

00:03:55.200 decision making. In a technocratic system, leaders are selected based on their knowledge and skills

00:04:00.980 in specific fields relevant to their roles. For example, a scientist would lead a science ministry

00:04:06.680 and an economist would be in charge of the economy. This ensures that the decisions made

00:04:11.600 are informed by the most current and comprehensive understanding available.

00:04:16.100 The second feature is a focus on efficiency and effectiveness. Technocracy aims to optimize and

00:04:21.580 streamline government operations. By applying scientific principles and methodologies to

00:04:26.840 administrative practices, technocracies work to achieve the best possible outcomes with the least

00:04:32.260 waste of resources. The third feature is the emphasis on long-term planning. Technocrats

00:04:37.800 often prioritize long-term benefits and sustainability over short-term gains. They are

00:04:42.040 likely to invest in research and development and take proactive measures to address future

00:04:46.040 challenges. This forward-thinking approach is designed to ensure stability and growth over time,

00:04:50.560 even if it requires sacrifices in the immediate term.

00:04:53.860 One of the strengths of technocracy is its ability to address complex and specialized issues

00:04:58.300 that traditional political systems may not handle well.

00:05:01.660 Since technocrats have expertise in specific fields,

00:05:04.680 they can develop more sophisticated and effective solutions to technical or scientific problems.

00:05:10.520 For instance, in managing a health crisis,

00:05:12.660 a technocratic leadership composed of health experts

00:05:14.900 could be more adept at devising strategies and interventions that effectively mitigate the crisis.

00:05:20.560 Another strength is the reduction in political influence on decision-making.

00:05:24.580 Technocracy can limit the sway of political agendas and reduce corruption by focusing on data-driven and objective criteria for decisions.

00:05:32.880 This can lead to more rational and unbiased policies that are better aligned with the public's actual needs and the nation's strategic interests.

00:05:39.900 However, technocracy also has limitations.

00:05:43.100 One significant limitation is the potential lack of democratic participation.

00:05:47.700 Because technocrats are selected based on expertise rather than elected by popular vote,

00:05:52.980 there can be a disconnect between the leadership and the general populace.

00:05:56.460 This might lead to policies that are efficient but not necessarily reflective of the public's

00:06:00.680 desires or values, possibly causing discontent or disengagement among citizens.

00:06:05.220 Another limitation is the risk of over-reliance on technical solutions.

00:06:08.520 While scientific approaches are essential, not all societal issues can be effectively

00:06:13.180 resolved through technical means alone.

00:06:15.660 Social, cultural, and ethical considerations often play a crucial role in policymaking

00:06:19.640 and can be undervalued or overlooked in a purely technocratic approach.

00:06:23.980 This might lead to decisions that are technically sound but socially or ethically problematic.

00:06:28.620 To learn about other models of governance, check out the videos on screen now.

00:06:32.260 So I wanted to show you that one because it kind of shows the positives,

00:06:36.580 like it's kind of trying to sell a technocracy,

00:06:38.540 and it just gives a very small explanation of what the downfalls could be.

00:06:42.440 But we are going to go into the downfalls a lot deeper.

00:06:45.020 moving on to segment two technocracy in the real world today look no further than the european

00:06:55.600 union the eu is often described as a textbook technocracy the european commission unelected

00:07:04.080 bureaucrats in brussels propose the vast majority of laws that member states must implement the

00:07:12.440 European Central Bank sets monetary policy for the Eurozone with limited democratic oversight.

00:07:19.560 National parliaments are frequently sidelined. When Greece tried to push back against austerity

00:07:26.560 during the debt crisis, technocratic pressure from the Troika, which was the commission ECB

00:07:33.520 and MIF combined together, overrode the democratic will of the Greek people.

00:07:39.120 Similar dynamics play out across the continent, migration policies, energy transitions, and regulatory frameworks pushed from above, often clashing with national interests and the public opinion.

00:07:52.880 And of course, there's the global layer to all this.

00:07:56.200 Organizations like the World Economic Forum promote ideas like stakeholder capitalism and the Great Reset, which we're told is a conspiracy theory.

00:08:04.780 And this is where experts and corporations collaborate to reshape society.

00:08:10.780 Climate agreements and net zero targets are set by international bodies and enforced through national bureaucracies, regardless of whether they destroy domestic industries, raise energy costs for working families, or undermine energy independence.

00:08:28.420 During the COVID era, we saw technocratic governance in action.

00:08:32.880 Lockdowns, vaccine policies, mandates driven by public health experts, and modeled projections,

00:08:38.600 often with little regard for the economic devastation in specific nations or the rights of the citizens.

00:08:46.140 Dissenting voices, hello me, including doctors and scientists who questioned the consensus,

00:08:52.640 were sidelined or censored or cancelled.

00:08:57.280 And now, with artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure,

00:09:02.160 technocracy is accelerating. Algorithms decide what information we see. Central bank digital

00:09:08.840 currencies or CBDCs threaten cash and financial privacy under the banner of efficiency and

00:09:16.600 anti-crime measures. Digital IDs and surveillance systems are rolled out as necessary for modern

00:09:24.280 society. Who programs these systems? Who sets the guardrails? Increasingly, it's a narrow class

00:09:32.040 of global experts and tech oligarchs, not the sovereign people of individual nations.

00:09:38.660 This isn't a conspiracy. It's observable reality. Power is shifting from elected national leaders,

00:09:45.860 answerable to their voters, to networks of experts who legitimacy comes from credentials

00:09:51.140 and institutional positions, not from the consent of the governed.

00:09:56.800 segment three is the national critique and why technocracy betrays our nations

00:10:05.180 from a nationalist perspective again technocracy's fatal flaw is simple

00:10:11.100 it treats the nation as an outdated obstacle rather than the fundamental unit of human loyalty

00:10:17.560 culture and self-government nations are not random lines on a map i've said that before

00:10:24.480 They are organic communities bound by shared history, language, culture, values, and blood and soil ties forged over generations.

00:10:35.680 A true nationalist believes that the primary duty of government is to protect and advance the interests of its own people,

00:10:44.260 securing borders, preserving cultural continuity, ensuring economic opportunity for citizens, and maintaining the right to self-determination.

00:10:54.480 Technocracy does the opposite. It promotes universal solutions and global standards that erode national differences.

00:11:03.100 Open borders and managed migration became evidence-based policies.

00:11:07.660 Even when they strain the welfare system, they change the demographics rapidly, they weaken social cohesion in the host nations.

00:11:16.460 Energy policies prioritize abstract global climate goals over keeping factories running and families warm.

00:11:22.680 speech regulations framed as fighting misinformation suppress debate on immigration

00:11:29.500 identity or national pride like i said we're all nazis now right

00:11:33.540 the experts claim neutrality but their worldview is anything but many come from the same universities

00:11:41.500 and international institutions that have promoted multiculturalism supranational governance and

00:11:48.760 progressive social engineering for decades. Their expertise often aligns suspiciously well with

00:11:55.520 interests of global capital, international bureaucracies, and ideological agendas that

00:12:01.540 de-emphasize national identity. Economically technocratic approaches have frequently harmed

00:12:08.140 working and middle-class citizens in Western nations, offshoring automation accelerated by

00:12:14.400 global supply chains and regulatory burdens that favour large multinationals over small

00:12:19.900 domestic businesses, all justified with charts and models showing aggregate efficiency.

00:12:26.460 The human cost, hollowed out communities, lost manufacturing jobs, declining birth rates

00:12:31.740 and economic insecurity, it's all dismissed as the price of progress.

00:12:37.080 Culturally, technocracy accelerates deracination when decisions about education, media standards

00:12:43.300 and public symbols are influenced by international norms or elite consensus rather than national

00:12:49.160 traditions, the unique character of our people fades. National pride is reframed as problematic.

00:12:55.580 Sovereignty is called populism or worse. We all know. We've all been called that.

00:13:01.860 Most dangerously, technocracy is anti-democratic by design. It insulates power from the messy,

00:13:08.920 passionate, sometimes irrational, will of the people. Voters can elect leaders who promise

00:13:14.860 to put the nation first, only to find those leaders constrained by treaties, regulations,

00:13:21.180 courts, central banks, expert panels that they didn't vote for. This breeds cynicism,

00:13:27.920 alienation, and the very populist backlash that technocrats then decry as irrational.

00:13:33.380 populism and technocracy are often portrayed as opposites but nationalists see them differently

00:13:40.740 populism is the corrective the people's demand that their nation and their voice matter again

00:13:46.280 and at that we're going to watch another video on just some clips from another video

00:13:52.880 the rise of american technocracy we're going to specifically review the urban renewal and

00:13:59.680 the great society that Lyndon B. Johnson came up with, and he aimed to end poverty through this

00:14:06.300 massive complex entitlement programs. And of course, they obviously resulted in inefficiency

00:14:10.720 and dependence. And then there's a small section on the modern administrative state, which is these

00:14:16.840 two things are basically applicable to our current society in modernity. The purview of expert

00:14:23.020 administration grew bit by bit. It all started with Woodrow Wilson's supposedly modest effort

00:14:28.980 to offload the minute details of government administration from Congress to disinterested

00:14:34.040 and efficient experts until FDR's New Deal. Now, a public that had endured a Great Depression

00:14:41.420 and a Second World War was growing accustomed to centralized federal power. Six years of war

00:14:48.140 dramatically transformed the U.S. economy and many of its cities. This brought waves of migration

00:14:54.540 into cities. And that, unsurprisingly, brought its own housing challenges.

00:15:01.620 So how does the federal government solve a problem like housing? Simple. By throwing money and

00:15:08.600 expertise at it. President Truman took a page from FDR's book and unveiled a fair deal agenda,

00:15:15.200 which included the Housing Act of 1949. The FHA poured money into urban renewal and slum

00:15:20.980 clearance projects. The government's experts believe that slums could be replaced with highly

00:15:25.620 efficient, self-sustaining public housing. The beginning of the Great Society was urban renewal,

00:15:31.700 building tall towers to house people on the principle we knew how to house people.

00:15:38.020 Perhaps no project was more ambitious than St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe complex. A massive stretch

00:15:44.260 of downtown was completely razed to make room for it. Entire neighborhoods erased.

00:15:48.740 Up-and-coming architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the buildings.

00:15:53.140 Yamasaki was highly influenced by a French architect named Corbusier.

00:15:57.380 Corbusier was a huge fan of Frederick Winslow Taylor,

00:16:01.300 and Taylor's principles of efficiency imbued his work.

00:16:04.420 Yamasaki wanted to try something similar for Pruitt Aigo.

00:16:07.620 Architecture magazines raved about his initial designs.

00:16:10.900 Skip-stop elevators stopped on every third floor.

00:16:13.700 The idea was both to maximize the number of units and to foster a sense of community.

00:16:18.580 by encouraging interaction between neighbors.

00:16:21.120 And although he preferred a mix of building sizes rather than strictly high-rises,

00:16:25.340 St. Louis officials said no.

00:16:27.020 He had to work for government, and government said,

00:16:29.260 well, this is too expensive, you have to make this housing more dense.

00:16:32.480 Reluctantly, Yamasaki did it their way, and up the towers went.

00:16:36.060 33 towers, 11 stories each.

00:16:38.660 And the premise was, people live in slums, let's move them into something nice. 0.95

00:16:43.480 An animal farm in the city, right? 0.77

00:16:45.420 Pruitt-Igoe.

00:16:46.180 these towers are clean, they have all sorts of amenities that the homes these people live in

00:16:50.820 don't have, they're going to be happier and progress will ensue.

00:16:55.220 So we'll take these people, raise all these private homes, create the modern towers. Just

00:17:00.500 the fact that they're in this modern gleaming place is going to engender feelings in the

00:17:06.180 residents that are going to lead to utopia. Well, what happens is the exact opposite.

00:17:17.040 It's hard to find the right word for what happened next.

00:17:22.120 Tragedy? Disaster?

00:17:25.080 St. Louis officials assumed the city's population would keep growing.

00:17:28.780 It did not.

00:17:30.180 The same FHA money that allowed for the construction of the complex

00:17:33.320 also subsidized suburban home ownership. 0.53

00:17:37.000 Whites left the city in droves, making the complex de facto segregated.

00:17:42.660 There weren't enough people willing to live in the towers,

00:17:45.160 which again were designed to have maximum occupancy so that the collected rent would cover upkeep.

00:17:51.300 Many of the residents received government benefits, so they paid a much lower rate.

00:17:56.160 Under Missouri law, welfare benefits came with a brutal requirement.

00:18:00.440 A family could only have one parent, a mother.

00:18:04.360 The government was paying mothers to kick fathers out of their homes, disproportionately wrecking black families.

00:18:10.560 upkeep quickly unraveled as there wasn't enough money generated to pay for it 0.82

00:18:15.480 but yamasaki's designs bear some blame as well because people couldn't get off on their floor

00:18:23.660 through the elevator they had to go on the stairs and muggers came and mugged them there

00:18:27.820 no one wants to go up and down stairs because that's where the muggers go it was true and

00:18:32.620 puidaigo became very dangerous light fixtures in the breezeways were constantly being smashed

00:18:38.040 leaving nightmarishly dark halls where the worst of things could and did happen.

00:18:43.820 This glorious national symbol of a public housing project,

00:18:47.900 instead of becoming heaven, became hell

00:18:50.080 and was eventually dynamited in a very sad and dramatic session.

00:18:56.640 So instead of building a future American home,

00:19:00.740 we put people in prisons.

00:19:02.560 That's what Pruitt-Igar was.

00:19:04.040 It was universally hated by a proud city, St. Louis.

00:19:08.600 It's still a scar on the cityscape. 0.95

00:19:11.060 The people had no voice in it.

00:19:13.940 Science, as interpreted by the politicians in the 20th century,

00:19:18.080 took on a kind of an arrogant edge to it.

00:19:21.260 And, of course, that meant the rule of the experts, the rule of the scientists.

00:19:27.760 We don't know enough.

00:19:29.760 We know a lot, but we don't know enough.

00:19:32.300 Nobody took the failure more to heart than the architect, Yamasaki.

00:19:37.340 He expressed regret for his deplorable mistakes with Pruitt-Igoe.

00:19:41.120 By the 1950s, he was giving bitter speeches about the tragedy of housing thousands in exactly lookalike cells,

00:19:47.960 which certainly does not foster our ideals of human dignity and individualism. 0.76

00:19:52.760 To the Detroit Free Press, he put it more simply,

00:19:56.280 social ills can't be cured by nice buildings.

00:19:59.660 The final towers were demolished on spectacular display in 1976.

00:20:05.860 With them should have gone the hubris of centrally planned government, but alas, what did government do instead?

00:20:13.100 We launched the Great Society, the next New Deal.

00:20:20.140 Early progressives were interested in efficiency and making government more efficient through expert administration.

00:20:26.320 They hated wastefulness.

00:20:28.120 Their solution was to run society like an engineer.

00:20:31.380 To them, political science could replace politics.

00:20:34.660 The New Deal was just applying that principle. 0.98

00:20:37.400 Centralize as much power over the economy, over housing, over business as possible.

00:20:42.940 The Supreme Court may have reigned FDR's program in,

00:20:45.820 but the administrative state he helped construct continued to grow in size and scope anyhow.

00:20:51.940 When Lyndon Johnson announces his Great Society initiative,

00:20:54.980 The goal of this administrative state is no longer just about expert control over the economy. It's far deeper.

00:21:02.620 So Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was an attempt, on the one hand, to harness New Deal progressive-style government, faith and expertise, the attempt to ameliorate the problems of modern capitalist, industrialist society.

00:21:18.260 we're not just going to throw money at the poor and say, okay, we've provided a safety net.

00:21:24.960 We're going to end poverty. And you think about how radical that really is. We're going to

00:21:29.160 transform the human condition. And this administration today, here and now,

00:21:36.120 declares unconditional war on poverty in America. Poverty has been with human beings since human

00:21:43.540 beings began to exist. And we're going to fix that. We, in our time in 1960s America, have the

00:21:49.440 wealth and the resources and the expertise to transform the human condition, to permanently

00:21:54.480 end the problem of poverty. We have the ability in this time, not just to solve man's material

00:22:00.340 needs, but also to solve man's cultural and spiritual longings. We are going to fulfill

00:22:06.740 the longings of the soul through expert government programs. We're going to bring the city of God

00:22:12.740 down to earth. Utopia was within reach. All that was required was enough managerial power in the

00:22:19.080 hands of the right people. So we get food stamps as a new entitlement. We get the expansion of

00:22:24.640 social security to include Medicare and Medicaid. We get increased housing assistance. Urban renewal

00:22:29.520 efforts like Pruitt-Igoe were a flat-out disaster that left cities in worse shape than they'd seen

00:22:34.560 before. Even the more successful programs fell wildly short of Johnson's goals. Shortly after

00:22:40.780 After health entitlements were introduced, it became clear that there were crucial gaps in coverage, high prices to taxpayers, and losses through bureaucratic inefficiency and fraud.

00:22:51.260 Quickly bred increased government dependence with, and an ever-increasing burden on, taxpayers, which caused backlash by a disillusioned public.

00:22:59.200 so that video that clip of that video was actually the perfect example of a few different things but

00:23:10.000 also you know the welfare state and all that kind of stuff but basically lyndon johnson created all

00:23:16.820 this bureaucracy to try to eradicate poverty and when you think of a technocracy you might

00:23:22.460 not think of it in that terms because it wasn't really technical and the way we think of it

00:23:25.980 but it was kind of technocratic right dependence on the the state and all that kind of stuff and

00:23:34.100 and you know lobby groups and all that kind of stuff so that was a good you know

00:23:39.400 I feel that was a good clip to insert there and then the second thing in this video that they

00:23:45.820 talk about is like I said the modern administrative state which we're gonna

00:23:49.480 it's about six minutes we're gonna watch that too because that's what we're living through now

00:23:53.380 that was not the original pitch for the american republic at least fda

00:23:59.720 wasn't assigning legislation for his ambitious programs with the great society and greater

00:24:06.320 expansion of government power over our lives this whole three branches of government thing 0.95

00:24:11.600 was getting tossed right out the door republics are based on the idea that we elect

00:24:15.960 people who make the laws but most of the laws today aren't made by congress most of the laws

00:24:22.160 today are made by administrative agencies. The rules and regulations that are made by the

00:24:27.820 national government are made in EPA, in FDA, in the FTC, in the SEC, and all of the alphabet

00:24:36.580 soup agencies that we know are the real governing institutions in America today.

00:24:42.460 Woodrow Wilson opened a fourth branch of government. Expert administrators who would

00:24:47.240 deal with all the little details of regulation that Congress neither had the time nor the

00:24:51.880 expertise to handle themselves. But this fourth branch was overtaking the other three.

00:24:58.640 It now exercises all three powers of the other branches, which is a big no-no under the

00:25:04.120 idea of separation of powers, which is a key component of our constitutional system.

00:25:08.220 The promises that Lyndon Johnson made about what government could do for them were

00:25:14.760 unbelievable and in the end unattainable and have fueled the perception that government makes

00:25:23.060 promises that it can't keep, that we should be cynical about government because government is

00:25:29.240 a disaster. Government can't do the things that it's supposed to do. It makes promises and doesn't

00:25:34.100 keep them. What happened in the 21st century is a kind of a sudden realization by the public

00:25:40.000 that they were in somewhat of a parallel position to the worker in the factory floor.

00:25:46.400 Don't think, right, because the experts know.

00:25:49.920 The experts know more than you do about what's good for your personal nutrition.

00:25:53.800 They know better than you do about how to keep us all safe.

00:25:56.700 They know better than you about your finances.

00:25:59.880 They know how to protect the environment.

00:26:02.260 They know how to protect your health.

00:26:03.760 What the COVID episode showed is that a free people can indeed be made so scared that they are willing, in fact eager, to give up their freedoms.

00:26:15.360 The COVID pandemic really highlighted the ability of scientific experts to abuse their powers.

00:26:22.060 The government thought it knew more than it did and then demonstrated that it knew less than it thought.

00:26:27.420 Okay. The idea that government in an emergency should respond rapidly to deal with a crisis,

00:26:35.640 that's always been part of American government. But what's new is the authority of the science

00:26:40.100 and the authority of the scientists to command our allegiance. All of our decisions were going

00:26:45.260 to be based on a model produced by experts inside the government who could predict with much more

00:26:51.300 accuracy than they actually can. What would happen if you just followed their orders?

00:26:55.700 When COVID came along, you know, Anthony Fauci first said this, and he said the opposite, and CDC stood in the way of developing a vaccine, and there were all these moments where the people in charge seemed to be more the problem than the solution.

00:27:12.980 It soon came to be taken by the general public and by the political elites that they were the experts, and any questioning of that was to deny science.

00:27:24.140 We should always remember Richard Feynman's wonderful definition of science.

00:27:28.640 Science is the belief that the experts are wrong.

00:27:32.080 Science is about contestation, not orthodoxy.

00:27:35.120 The lesson that I draw from the effects of the administrative statement is that it's a bad deal.

00:27:43.580 America is in the midst of a really central moment in its history, where on both sides of the political spectrum, there's an increasing distrust of the people in power.

00:27:54.800 I think we do need to rethink the foundations of modern administration.

00:27:58.900 We need to restore some idea of an administration that is in our control.

00:28:04.540 We need experts. We need expertise.

00:28:06.940 The issue is, will experts have power?

00:28:10.460 value expertise but fear expert power we actually have to have the power to say yes to this expert

00:28:22.040 no to this other if we want a true rule of experts in my view uh it would be to decentralize

00:28:29.160 decision making as much as possible no one is more expert in what is good for me than me

00:28:36.400 And I have an incentive to get it right.

00:28:38.500 Don Boudreau is the world's leading expert on Don Boudreau.

00:28:43.040 For 100 years, we've been the guinea pigs in a grand experiment.

00:28:47.140 Can managers, experts, and bureaucrats more efficiently plan and run our lives than we can?

00:28:52.080 Does society flourish when a select few determine the path for the many?

00:28:57.020 The time for hypothesizing, theorizing, and moralizing is past.

00:29:01.420 The data is in, and it is overwhelming.

00:29:03.740 No matter how knowledgeable, the consolidation of power in the hands of the few has harmed the governed every time it was tried.

00:29:11.920 Experts are critical to evaluating, judging, and planning.

00:29:15.660 But if losing our freedom is the cost of trusting anything, is it really worth it?

00:29:21.020 Things have gotten bad. People are suffering.

00:29:23.880 But it's up to us.

00:29:25.940 I would like us to return power and autonomy to the people.

00:29:30.700 That we can do.

00:29:31.480 So, as you see in that video, they talk about basically how it has become the administrative state where everything, they tried to solve one problem, and because of them trying to solve a problem that really wasn't that big of a problem, they have all these layered bureaucracies now where nothing can actually get done, right?

00:29:50.660 And the politicians no longer have any power, and definitely the people no longer have any power.

00:29:55.180 So we're going to move on to segment four, the alternative, sovereign nations and accountable expertise. This is something that people that write about this a lot suggest that we could do to get out of this.

00:30:08.280 so does this mean that nationalists like myself would reject all expertise well absolutely not

00:30:16.300 obviously every strong nation has always drawn on the best minds engineers who build infrastructure

00:30:23.120 and i'm talking about real engineers not the euphemism that they use to flood our country

00:30:28.780 scientists who advance medicine and defense economists who advise on sound policy the

00:30:36.460 difference is who they serve, who they serve, remember that, and who holds ultimate authority.

00:30:45.260 In a nationalist framework, experts are advisors, not rulers. Elected leaders accountable to the

00:30:52.660 voters of the nation will weigh the technical input alongside other factors like the cultural

00:30:57.780 preservation, economic fairness for citizens, long-term demographic health, and the survival

00:31:04.280 of the people's way of life. Look at historical examples of successful nation-states that

00:31:11.000 prioritized sovereignty. Strong leaders who rebuilt or defended their countries often blended

00:31:17.180 pragmatic expertise with a clear vision of national interest, not blind deference to

00:31:23.440 international consensus. Singapore shows what disciplined, high-competence governance

00:31:29.120 governance, can achieve when tied to a clear national identity and purpose. Though even there,

00:31:36.760 the model has limits. The path forward is to demand technological and policy sovereignty.

00:31:46.020 Invest in our own capabilities, control our borders and data, prioritize domestic industry

00:31:51.780 and energy security. That's all. We don't need all this other tech stuff, the surveillance state,

00:31:57.020 and none of that stuff. We need to reform or exit institutions that subordinate national law

00:32:02.700 to supranational rules. Use expertise to strengthen the nation, not dissolve it into a borderless

00:32:10.080 managed global system. We don't need to abolish competence. We need to subordinate it to the

00:32:17.820 democratic will of the people within their historical homelands. So in conclusion, my

00:32:25.460 friends. Technocracy isn't coming. It's already here, reshaping our world one regulation, one

00:32:32.360 algorithm, one treaty at a time. It promises efficiency and rationality, but delivers elite

00:32:38.920 control, cultural erosion, and the slow death of national self-government. We reject the idea that

00:32:48.840 our countries are problems to be solved by distant experts. Our nations are ends in themselves,

00:32:55.000 living inheritances we have, a duty to preserve and pass on stronger than we receive them.

00:33:02.900 The solution isn't more technocracy with a different flavor. It's reclaiming democracy

00:33:10.240 for the nation, and I mean a true democracy. Leaders who listen to their people defend

00:33:15.860 sovereignty and put citizens first. It's building movements and supporting policies that prioritize

00:33:22.260 borders, culture, economy, and identity.

00:33:27.680 The future belongs to those who remember who they are

00:33:31.620 and refuse to surrender their birthright

00:33:35.180 to unelected managers of a global system.

00:33:40.680 Thanks for listening, guys.

00:33:42.320 That's about all.

00:33:43.220 Remember to stay vigilant, stay proud,

00:33:46.320 and remember, blood and soil, our nation, comes first.

postyX - July 05, 2026

Death by Technocracy

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