Operation Paperclip: Proof of Technocracy?
One further theory I want to put forth for speculation in regards to this technocratic thread. If you don’t buy the conspiracy theory that “experts” rule the world, consider what follows then as a sci-fi story, an alternate view of history told from a side we don’t often consider. So here goes…
This comes from an avowed conspiracy website, but you can easily find this same information in official (ie, expert or technocratic) sources as well.
After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines, and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most precious “spoils” of all: the scientists whose work had nearly won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence officers of the Nazi War Machine.
The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home. Following the discovery of flying discs (foo fighters), particle/laser beam weaponry in German military bases, the War Department decided that NASA and the CIA must control this technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked on this technology.
There was only one problem: it was illegal. U.S. law explicitly prohibited Nazi officials from immigrating to America–and as many as three-quarters of the scientists in question had been committed Nazis.
The story goes that these scientists were then brough to America illegally, by means of scrubbing their pasts clean, so that they could live and work in the US and we could benefit from their knowledge. But that is merely one way of looking at this well-known piece of conspiracy history.
We could, if we were so inclined, revamp it from the perspective of our developing technocratic narrative. It would go something like this: Nazi Germany was nothing more and nothing less than a scientific experiment. The experiment was to ramp up the speed with which a fully-automated technocratic government could be rolled out openly on the world stage, to see what it can achieve and see how people inside and outside of it react. The region of Germany - from this vantage point - offered an ideal testing ground because it had been extraordinarily fertile soil for philosophers, scientists and experts of all stripes for generations. And if they could make it work anywhere, they could do so among such a highly advanced people.
The experiment then proceeded to set up a sociolatry or sociocracy, or what the founder of the science of sociology considered some 150 years ago to be a final replacement for religion with the worship of human society.
[Comte] advanced the concept of a “sociocracy,” defined as a new “religion of humanity.” Sociologists were to identify the principles of this new faith and to implement them through a “sociolatry.” The sociolatry was to entail a system of festivals, devotional practices, and rites designed to fix the new social ethics in the minds of the people. In the process, men and women would devote themselves not to God (deemed an outmoded concept) but to “Humanity” as symbolized in the “Grand Being” and rendered incarnate in the great men of history.
If that isn’t a near-perfect description of the Nazi civic religion, then I don’t know what is. Meanwhile, this devotion to the ideals of science lead in another direction as well. As we described in a previous post, focusing exclusively on that which can be measured leads you to an Ahrimanic philosophy of “pure” materialism in which one is freed from the constraints of morality and other intangible inner states. With morality out of the way, scientists are freed to experiment as needed on humans and in other areas which were previously forbidden.
In turn, removing the constraints (ie, the weight of morality) from science also allowed these scientists to advance extremely rapidly in their acquisition of knowledge. Hence we see that the Nazis were ridiculously far ahead of us in so many technological areas - which is of course supposed to be the reason why the United States gobbled the Nazi scientists up after the war and put them to use. But in our theory, entities such as “The United States” are merely implements of sociolatry. They are not real things - they are staging grounds for specific experiments with specific goals, just as Nazi Germany was. I would posit that Germany then did not “lose” the war - but rather that the utility of the technocratic experiment upon which it was founded simply ran out. The technocrats and sociocrats who created it tested a theory, observed the reactions, learned a great deal and abandoned the experiment. Just like good scientists, they then took their knowledge with them and focused on creating new experiments which would apply the lessons they had learned and advance their goals even further.
Thus, in Operation Paperclip, we did not see the United States capturing Nazi scientists. We saw a faction of the technocratic rulers moving on to their next official appointments and teaching others what they had learned. But like I said, this narrative interpretation of history can easily (and perhaps rightfully) be written off as wishful thinking, conspiracy theory or even science-fiction. But then, maybe sci-fi was only ever intended as a means of further glorifying the humble scientist (the technocrat) in the hearts and imagination of the people he sought to serve….
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August 2nd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Interesting line from sociological positivism on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_positivism
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:27 pm
dude….”experts rule the world”. you have got to check out alan watts on www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com…………………unless you don`t understand scottish!
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Well can you give me a specific link to ONE of his pieces to look at to get me started?
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 am
Playing with this new conspiracy theory (Technocracy) is fun and I feel it has some legs.
I have entertained, from time to time, the thought that those in power are not fundamentally evil. It’s a distinct possibility. I felt like they might be behaving as if they knew better and had to make hard choices, etc. etc. and, well, basically you know which road is paved with good intentions.
I have known many a smart person. They often share similar defects or short-comings. Amongst such short comings is frequently found a sense that no one can know what or feel what the intelligencia feels or knows.
The super intelligent or elite technocrat are still (I presume) human. I think it is reasonable to assume that they still share some of us ‘usual’ human shortcomings.
I’m looking forward to more ruminating about the technocratic barnyard.
Consider this - they have given “us” enough to keep us happy and distracted. Not necessarily evil - just pragmatic. Let’s satisfy enough people and give as many people as who will take it a good life. Then, when that model is perfected as best it can we can impose it on the rest of the world, any way we can but the quickest would be best, so that the vast majority of people will enjoy the life “we” can provide.
But, of course, such a delusion is offensive and evil by most standards. But maybe not if you were in charge.
Technocracy is fun. It’s good to be in on the ground level of a conspiracy.
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:05 am
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com...e_James_Interview_with_Alan_Watt.html
i`m a listener before a reader so i listen to the audio files mostly but the link above is indicative of the scope of alan`s scolarship and perception of the technocracy at play in our society.
he has made many of the same observations as i did growing up in england. for instance, considering that we won the war against germany, why was thier economy so much stronger? in the sixties our industry began to fail and through the seventies british products went to shit, while german and japanese products improved and sold worldwide. bmw, toyota, panasonic, audi, volkswagen, braun, etc. this is one brief example, one that my teenage mind noticed those years ago.
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Found this today:
From “The Intelligentsia and the Religion of Humanity” by James H. Billington, via the American Historical Review, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Jul., 1960) , pp. 807-821
Comte founded sociology, of course. I wonder if we might be able to find a similar appeal made to other historical leaders by intellectuals, perhaps urging a variation of the same, but in the later historical context perhaps of either Nazism or the Russian communist system
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(196007)65%3A4%3C807%3ATIATRO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
August 4th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Tim, you might check out ‘Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern’ by John Gray. It describes how Qutbian fundamentalists, communists, fascists, and captialists all can directly trace their intellectual roots back to guys like Comte and Saint-Simon.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407090.html
August 4th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Score! That’s exactly the type of thing I am looking for. Thanks so much!
October 20th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
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