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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

When No One Cares

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

Theotropic Desire in Technocracy

There is this sort of theotropic, you know, desire that I think is part of human nature for a lot of people. We're not just left wing people to think about designing how to design society perfectly from a drawing board, from God's point of view. The problem wasn't authority and absolutism but institutions that had authority and were absolute were the wrong institutions. That's what Woodrow Wilson believed. Believe me, I can quote you chapter in verse on that. And that's one of the defining features of technocracy.

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