{"id":5122,"date":"2021-01-06T01:11:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/staging\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:26:28","slug":"the-technocrats-and-technocracy-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/the-technocrats-and-technocracy-a-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Technocrats and Technocracy &#8211; A Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"m02\">Click the link below to read or download the PDF. (New to Quasar? <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/about-this-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/?sdm_process_download=1&#038;download_id=1590\" class=\"sdm_download teal\" title=\"The Technocrats and Technocracy &#8211; A Primer\" target=&quot;_blank&quot;>The Technocrats and Technocracy &#8211; A Primer<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"m02\">\u2022 Updated December 22, 2023 \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Anyone paying any attention at all is aware that the influence of the wealthy elite has grown immensely<\/strong>; a handful of corporations have come to control almost all of the media, influencing not just what \u201cnews\u201d we get to hear (and what we don\u2019t get to hear), but how we feel about it. Mom and Pop businesses have been steadily replaced with big box stores and now, online shopping. The influx of the big box world and more and more technology into our lives is only part of the technocrats\u2019 world view, or agenda; what\u2019s at the heart of it is organizing the world in a technical fashion engineered by \u201cexperts\u201d and private entities outside of the messiness of democracy and a democratic dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click the link below to read or download the PDF. (New to Quasar? Click here.) \u2022 Updated December 22, 2023 \u2022 Anyone paying any attention at all is aware that the influence of the wealthy elite has grown immensely; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/the-technocrats-and-technocracy-a-primer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,195],"tags":[277,282,278],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-technocracy-world-economic-forum","tag-technocracy","tag-technocrat","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7593,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldengalaxies.net\/Quasar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}