The Death Cult
Technocratic failure at the end of the industrial age
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The Death Cult
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Tim Watkins
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Any one of these crises threatens to undermine our complex industrial civilisation. But taken together, they constitute an existential threat to humanity as a whole.
We used to think that, as the old adage had it, that "cometh the hour cometh the man..." That is, that so great a threat, would bring forth true leaders to rally the people to heroic feats so that we, and future generations, would come through the bottleneck unscathed. Instead, we find ourselves ruled by an incompetent technocracy which is so detached from reality as to constitute a form of insanity... So detached, indeed, that their actions - or more often lack thereof - threaten the survival of industrial civilisation. A Death Cult, if you will.
In The Death Cult: Technological failure at the end of the industrial age, Tim Watkins explains the origins of the ruling technocracy, and how it became a "class for itself" - no longer interested in the little people whose lives it desires to take ever more control over, and, indeed, even hostile to planet Earth itself.
Watkins outlines the graft and corruption at the heart of technocratic rule, together with the abject failure of various protest movements even to slow the pace of technocratic misrule. Even as, time and again, our self-identifying rulers demonstrate their incompetence, we are left with no mechanisms by which we can remove them. Not least because our own protest has been co-opted by the technocracy via so-called "stakeholder capitalism."
Watkins demonstrates that the technocratic vision of a digital future - variously known as "the fourth industrial revolution," "the green new deal," and "the great reset," - lacks any grounding in reality and has been proven to be impossible given the material resources available to us on planet Earth.
In the pursuit of its impossible techno-utopia, not only is the technocracy setting itself up to fail, but in the process it will inflict untold hardship on those it deigns to rule. And the worst of it is that by the time failure becomes obvious - most likely when the technocracy itself experiences some of the hardship it is exposing on others - it will be too late to prevent all of those other crises from overwhelming us.
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