Sunday, February 11, 2018

Humanist Technocracy and Democracy

A Humanist Technocrat conceives society as a Whole.  But, the concept of Humanist Technocracy does not entail a specification of quantity of Technocrats.  Thus, depending on circumstances, in a society there can be one Technocrat, many Technocrats, or even everyone can conceive the Whole.  In other words, a Humanist Technocracy can be a Monarchy, an Oligarchy, or a Democracy, depending on circumstances.  For example, Rousseauian Democracy, in which each citizen conceives of, and votes to promote, the General Will, is a rudimentary Democratic Humanist Technocracy.  But Lockean Democracy is not a Technocracy--each citizen votes to promote their own self-interest, as is the case in any Atomist society, in which the Whole is merely Nominal, and, hence, is antithetical to Humanism.  The United States of recent decades is an example of such Atomism, i. e. is only nominally "united".

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