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outdated laws like the Constitution.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 17th 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.
