Technocracy Rising

 

Review of  Technocracy Rising; The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation by Patrick Wood, Coherent Publishing, Mesa AZ, 2015. 

You might call this book the ultimate in conspiracy theories.  It lays out the ideology and the people behind a movement to take over the world.  And, as far -fetched as it seems, it does make a case that sheds light on a multitude of seemingly unrelated changes we see happening in our society.  The name of the ideology is Technocracy and the people behind it are powerful people in business and government from many countries. 

The essence of technocracy is that technicians and engineers will make all the decisions based on their specialized knowledge.  It is anti-religious, and materialistic.  It believes that science can engineer people to be healthier and to live longer.  It believes in directed evolution.  It is globalistic and anti-democratic, anti nation state, and it believes that regulations over our daily lives should supersede outdated laws like the Constitution.

It was troubling to learn how many prominent leaders in the world are and have been in the World Economic Forum, which the author strongly links to the ideology of Technocracy and troubling also that the author can track the rise of this ideology from beginnings as long ago as the 17^th century. 

There is a subtle element of Christian eschatology in the book.  In the 1970s many Christians believed that Armageddon and ‘one world government’ was about to begin.  That fear faded as nothing panned out.  The Russians did not bring Armageddon as predicted and no AntiChrist rose up cheered on by the masses. But in this book we can see the real possibility of one world government coming to pass, enabled by quantum leaps in technology. And we can see that it is totalitarian and anti-human.