Posted on 09/15/2021 7:03:23 PM PDT by arthurus
Morgenthau wrote the essays in Truth and Power during the turbulent 1960s, but some of his observations have an eerie relevance to today’s politics. For example, in 1964, in an essay entitled “Modern Science and Political Power,” Morgenthau warned that our democracy was endangered by the scientific-technological-governmental trinity. “Power,” Morgenthau wrote, “has shifted from the people to the government. Within the government, power has shifted from democratically responsible officials to certain technological elites, military and scientific, which are not democratically responsible.
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I like Ike.
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Yup—the only way the humans on the planet can get their liberty back is to put these scientists on trial—another Nuremberg.
There must be consequences for evil scientists.
AND evil politicians!
Eisenhower was warning about a form of fascism.
A government-corporate cooperative.
“government-corporate cooperative”
I would say it is here.
I agree. It is here.
It won’t be dislodged without war, which I don’t believe will happen.
Think about all the scenarios for 60 years from now. It ain’t gonna be Utopia. Hell, I pine for the 80’s.
Read Ayn Rand. She beat this guy but at least 10 years.
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