The Scientific-Technological Elite

Most people are aware of this warning from President Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address to the nation:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

He was right, and it is no longer a "potential" but an actual disaster. If you don't believe me, just take an honest look at our federal budget and our foreign policy.

But far fewer of us recall this additional warning from his address:

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

That particular "capture" also has taken place, and here is an investigative report about one of its latest examples:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/

This quote from the report is revealing:

"In offices on the building’s first floor, decisions are reached that affect lives and health on scales comparable with minor wars. In the conference room, high above the street, and in the meeting hall, in the basement, rulings in biotechnology and genetics are handed down that will help shape the human race."

Yes, a scientific-technological elite has captured public policy on a global scale, and you, me, and "our" so-called government now have virtually no influence on what that public policy will be.

I know members of that elite, and they firmly believe they know everything which can be known, that We the People are a basket of deplorables, and they somehow have a divine imperative to do what they think is best for us, in spite of our uninformed objections. And if they decide the human herd has to be altered and/or culled for the common good, they will do so without hesitation or regret.

And by the way, I totally disagree with this claim from the report:

"Their agenda can only advance if we allow it."

Their agenda will advance no matter what we do. It's supported by the real leaders of our corporate-controlled fascist governments, and what they want always gets done. It would take a drastic, inconceivable alteration in the global architecture of political and financial power for there to be any other outcome.