Archimedes and Technocracy

The fundamental principle of Technocracy is Archimedes' statement, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the world." Modern Philosophy is Technocratic in that respect, e. g. the Cogito, and a Sense-Datum, for Rationalists and Empiricists, respectively,  are such 'places', though the abstraction from the Practical character of the enterprise typically gets it hypostasized as Theoretical 'Foundationalism'.   Likewise, Modern Political Philosophy has its Archimedean places, e. g. the Individual, Natural Right, Self-Interest, etc.  These are all devices for moving, if not the world, human society, but, because the search for and securing of the point is, like Wittgenstein's Ladder, dispensed with, their Practical and Historical character, and, hence, their Technocratic function, is suppressed within the content of the works.