http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/07/morality-science-technocracy/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:02:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/07/morality-science-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-19296 They-Live.com » Blog Archive » Conspiracy Theory is Not a Thing Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:53:09 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/07/morality-science-technocracy/#comment-19296 [...] I often find myself wanting to disagree with Pop Occulture’s Tim Boucher, although I am consistently swept along by his reasoning. The general thesis that we live in a technocratic paradigm seems pretty supportable- as are the corollaries which would logically seem to arise from it- resulting in a state of affairs in which “Technocracy exists to manage humans as though they were machines.” I also anjoy reading his essays on the blurry areas between pop culture and occult symbology. He makes some really interesting observations and does a lot of good research. But I guess what bothers me is his take on “conspiracy theory.” I often get the impression that Boucher wishes to retain the ability to distance himself from “it” as though it were an actual thing- like a physical object, or a vocation or a school of thought- to determine whether there’s any point in engaging in it. [...] [...] I often find myself wanting to disagree with Pop Occulture’s Tim Boucher, although I am consistently swept along by his reasoning. The general thesis that we live in a technocratic paradigm seems pretty supportable- as are the corollaries which would logically seem to arise from it- resulting in a state of affairs in which “Technocracy exists to manage humans as though they were machines.” I also anjoy reading his essays on the blurry areas between pop culture and occult symbology. He makes some really interesting observations and does a lot of good research. But I guess what bothers me is his take on “conspiracy theory.” I often get the impression that Boucher wishes to retain the ability to distance himself from “it” as though it were an actual thing- like a physical object, or a vocation or a school of thought- to determine whether there’s any point in engaging in it. [...]

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