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America Bows To Technocratic Despots

The expert class, tired of facing resistance, makes obedience mandatory.

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Ben Domenech
Nov 10, 2021
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Jacob Howland. “[T]he logic of 21st-century technocratic despotism was spelled out long ago in Plato’s Republic. In that dialogue, a class of self-styled experts — the philosopher-kings and their academically-trained ministers — considers its exclusive claim to a science of politics as a title to rule. Contemptuous of what they regard as the ignorant ma…

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