Matthew Cole writing at the Boston Review.net, and reproduced at other sites critical of technocracy, gives a good 101 lesson in what it is, and what is wrong with it. What is it? The term itself comes from Karl Marx’s co-writer Engels. It is the rationalist idea that the rule of reason should govern human affairs, rather than tradition, the Enlightenment on steroids. And, naturally, those who are supposedly most blessed by reason are the intelligentsia. In the age of technology, the highest level of these are those with technical efficiency, such as in the sciences and medicine. Thus, clearly illustrated by the Covid plandemic, we see the likes of Dr Fauci in the US, and his equivalents in other countries, such as health officials, proclaiming that entire societies should be locked down, and traditional freedoms eliminated. These policies were even damaging to lower level capitalists, but helped the big globalists such as Amazon. The objection to all this is that the technocrats have limited knowledge, bound by their own biases and lead us into disaster, the same objections critics of central planning gave, such as Hayek. The Covid plandemic was a knockdown refutation, at least intellectually of technocracy, but as this mindset lies behind communism, being refuted is just water of a very dirty duck’s back.