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%TECHNOCRATIC MONOPOLY 770801
President Eisenhower warned about the Military-
Industrial complex. That complex has a technocratic
character---it is compulsively concerned with techniques.
The Military-Industrial complex is a monopoly which seeks
exclusive control. It is supported by other aspects of
the same monopoly---within the religious, educational,
political, and cultural communities. The technocratic
monopoly thus involves all these communities in its
service.
The religious community tends to define issues of
human relationship in legalistic terms which can be
readily manipulated by technocrats. The ultimate
questions are asked in ways which lead to technical
answers in verbal form. The ultimate concerns pertain to
possessions, rights, privileges --- perhaps in an after-
life.
The educational community supports the technocratic
monopoly by training the technicians, the religious
leaders, the teachers, the political leaders, and the
cultural leaders---within the context of a technical
world-view. By excluding from consideration profound
criticisms of exclusively technical understanding, the
educational community insures that technical
considerations will dominate the society.
The political leaders operate within the technical
frame work of values and analysis generated by the
religious and educational communities. They call upon
technical experts to formulate the political questions
which are put to the electorate---and not surprisingly the
questions lead to technical rather than to non-technical
responses. Thus technical perspectives dominate politics.
The cultural leaders involve more than what we often
call "culture". The culture of a society is represented
by what members of the society value and feel merits their
time and attention. Thus auto racing, baseball, football,
television, basketball, and the like are pervasive
cultural forces, if they involve attracting attention from
the members of the society. In a technocratic society the
focus of such activities tends to be technical, rather
then genuinely affective.
Through exclusivity technocrats generate a
monopolistic technocratic society.
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