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Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'

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The Technocratic Processes Need to Be Subordinated to That, You Know?

i think this really does get to the heart of our tats ar ation to day, and also a cultural moment in many respects. Once you surrender to a kind of notion of technocracy that is unreflective, there is nothing that can't be justified from the standpoint of perceived efficiency. And if everything else is to be subordinated to that, well, you can come very quickly to very inhumane outcomes. So we know the technocratic processes need to be subordinate to w what you're saying is really we need a polyphonic kind of a thinking rather than just humming a simple tune.

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