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I feel constrained to continue the theme of what I wrote in this column last week. Most Americans are not paying attention (there's nothing new about that, of course), but this is especially true of political conservatives and religious evangelicals. But the impending introduction of Elon Musk's technocratic-dominated governmental system being launched under Donald Trump is more dangerous than almost any of us realize. 

I am going to refer often to a fascinating treatise—with the title that I borrowed for this column—written by Ira Basen in 2021.

He begins: 

On Oct. 13, 1940, a Regina chiropractor named Joshua Haldeman appeared in city court to face two charges under the Defence of Canada Act.

His alleged offence was belonging to Technocracy Incorporated, an organization that had been banned by the Canadian government several months earlier as part of a larger sweep of groups it considered subversive to the war effort.

Technocracy Incorporated was not a political movement – in fact, politicians or members of political parties were not allowed to join. It was founded in New York City in 1933 as an educational and research organization promoting a radical restructuring of political, social and economic life in Canada and the United States, with science as its central operating principle.

There would be no countries called Canada or the United States, either – just one giant continental land mass called the Technate, a techno-utopia run by engineers and other "experts" in their fields. In the Technate, everyone would be well-housed and fed. All material needs would be taken care of, whether you had a job or not.

As I pointed out last week, Trump's vision of a unified United States, Canada and Greenland is a near century-old plan of technocrats, which is being heavily promoted within Trump's administration by the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. So, don't dismiss what Trump is saying in this regard, because these billionaires are deadly serious; and there can be no debate that Donald Trump has filled his administration with more billionaires than any previous American president—and he is more inclined to give billionaires much more control of U.S. policies than any previous president.

Joshua Haldeman was a leader of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada from 1936 to 1941, but eventually became disillusioned with both the organization and the country, and packed up his young family to start life anew in South Africa.

In June 1971, Haldeman's daughter Maeve gave birth to his first grandson. His name is Elon Musk. [Emphasis added]

In a speech to an American audience in 1963, Howard Scott, the founder and leader of Technocracy Incorporated, declared that "as far as Technocracy's ideas are concerned, we're so far left that we make communism look bourgeois."

Technocracy's ideology defies easy characterization. It was anti-capitalist and anti-democratic, but not fascist. It was anti-government, but not libertarian. It believed in a radical form of social and economic equality, but it was not Marxist.

It rejected all those ideologies because none of them accepted the idea that science and technology were transforming North American life, and that only highly trained engineers and experts were capable of building a "new" North America. 

While Trump launched the Covid tyranny on the world in his waning days in office in 2020, it was given to Joe Biden to fully implement and enforce—through the mad scientist Anthony Fauci—this experiment of a government of, by and for the technocrats. Remember Fauci's mantra: "Trust the science." (Fauci's pseudoscience, of course.) That's exactly what we are talking about here. And that's exactly what Musk and Thiel are telling Trump.

While other political parties and protest groups were touting plans for putting people back to work, Technocracy response was: don't even bother. The world had changed, and the jobs destroyed by machines were not coming back.

At the heart of the price system was money. It was what forced people to go into debt, break the law, become greedy and engage in all kinds of other bad behaviours. But help was on the way.

"The march of technology, with its increasing abundance, will destroy every value of the price system," Scott declared in a speech in Sylvan Lake, Alta., during a western Canadian speaking tour in September 1939. "It is a clash between obsolescence and modernity, between technology and value, between science and chaos."

According to a 2019 report by the U.K. research group Oxford Economics, around 1.7 million jobs have already been lost to robots globally since 2000. Even the people who have helped engineer the tsunami are worried.

"We are experiencing the greatest economic and technological shift in human history," declared Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Yang during his unlikely run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. "We need a way to help millions of Americans transition through this period."

Yang's solution was a $1,000 US-a-month universal basic income. It's an idea that has gained considerable traction among Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs in recent years – even among those who are usually opposed to any kind of expansion of government.

At the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017, Elon Musk ? who constantly wages war with agencies trying to regulate his cars and rockets, and whose plan for fully autonomous vehicles could cost millions of jobs ? expressed his support for a guaranteed basic income. [Emphasis added]

"Mass unemployment" will be a "massive social challenge," Musk warned. Echoing words that his grandfather likely uttered many times, Musk concluded, "There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. With automation will come abundance."

Abundance for the technocrats.

I heartily recommend that readers watch an outstanding video synopsis of the AI world by Montana physician/Public Service Commission board member Dr. Ann Bukacek. She masterfully delivered a thoroughly researched address laying out the goals and objectives—and dangers—of AI technocrats like Musk and Thiel.

For Technocracy, addressing the "disease" meant doing away with the price system and the political infrastructure that supported it. They could provide citizens with far more security than any kind of guaranteed basic income.

"Under the Technate, we will be responsible for the health and well-being of every human being," Howard Scott declared. "That is more than any political government ever did."

Technocracy's plan was to replace the price system with a system based on energy. In the 1920s, Scott and his colleagues began a hugely ambitious program called the Energy Survey of North America. The idea was to establish a value for all the goods and services produced on the continent, not by measuring how much labour was expended or how much money was spent, but on the amount of energy used to produce them.

They would then divide the total amount of energy used by the number of citizens in the Technate over the age of 25, and issue each of those citizens an equal number of Energy Certificates, whether they were employed or not. These certificates would be the Technate's currency.

Every time you bought something, some of your energy credits would be deducted, and because the certificates would be issued directly to the owner, they couldn't be bought, sold, traded or stolen. No one would be able to accumulate more than anyone else. It was a prescription for a radically egalitarian state that might have made a Bolshevik blush. [Emphasis added]

"No one would be able to accumulate more than anyone else"—except the technocrats themselves, of course. Technocracy is just a scientific derivative of Communism, Fascism, Zionism and Crony Capitalism—systems it claims to abhor. In other words, just another form of tyranny.

In the Technate, your work life wouldn't begin until age 25. Once you joined the labour force, you'd work 16 hours a week, you'd get about 78 days of vacation a year and you'd retire when you're 45.

"One of the lowest social diseases is the belief in the morality of work," he told an audience in Calgary. "If you want to know what work has done for you, go home and look in the mirror and see what a mess you are." [Emphasis added]

From moral and Biblical perspectives, this is one of the evilest aspects of the whole technocratic system. There truly IS morality in work—and immorality in non-work. And tragically, a sizable percentage of Americans—including professing Christians—don't understand or adhere to that morality. Americans have allowed socialist policies in government to disincentivize work in their minds. Thanks to the socialist policies in the U.S. government, most Americans either view work as a burden or a necessary evil—and some of them even view work with outright disdain and disgust. All over the country, trying to get people to work is one of our biggest problems; and many of the ones who do "work" have no regard for their "workmanship." The quality of work in America has never been lower than it is today. And it's ubiquitous. No industry is exempt. And again, the technocratically driven Covid tyranny experiment was the latest impetus for this sinful concept of "no work." 

In its public outings, Technocracy Incorporated had an oddly militaristic look. Its members, both men and women, wore tailored grey suits and drove cars that they also painted grey. They greeted each other with salutes.

Technocracy believed that in a world that revolved around science and technology, only people with proven expertise in those areas should be responsible for its governance. That excluded all the usual suspects ? business people, lawyers, bankers, academics ? none of whom had the practical skills the modern age demanded.

Trump campaigned on the theme of populism, publicly repudiating the "experts" in politics. But he has surrounded himself with idealistic extremists (Zionists) and the billionaire class, who are "experts" in finance—but many of them, such as Musk and Thiel, gain their wealth by collaboration and cooperation with the government. I would like to see an investigative report on the percentage of billionaires who earned their massive wealth independent of government grants, contracts, kickbacks, tax breaks, etc. 

If I don't get around to covering Chris Hedges' clarion column entitled The Road to Dictatorship, I urge folks to read it. 

"Those who create a civilization will eventually dominate it," Scott proclaimed in a speech in Winnipeg. "The engineers and mechanics created this civilization, and will eventually dominate it." Technocracy was building "a technological army of the functionally competent."

This meant there would be no room and no need for democracy. All the normal functions of government ? education, health, sanitation, public safety ? would be run by experts chosen by their peers. Doctors would vote for the person in charge of the health-care system, teachers for the person who'd run the schools and so on. There would be a cabinet made up of about a hundred of these experts, and they would select a "continental director" to oversee the whole thing.

Bertsou has been studying the rise of "technocratic" governments around the world, especially in Europe. In February 2021, Mario Draghi, an economist and former president of the European Central Bank who had never held political office, was named Italian prime minister to help manage the country's post-pandemic economic recovery.

Draghi is a "technocrat," chosen for the specific experience he brings to the job. Italians are fond of technocrats, especially when times are tough, and Draghi is the fourth technocrat prime minister there since 1993. You can also find cabinet-level technocrats in Greece, France and Lebanon, among other countries. But none of them would be embraced by Technocracy, because they are still operating within the price system, still treating "symptoms," not the disease.

Today, no one is talking about a North American Technate or a 16-hour work week or replacing money with energy certificates. But it would be wrong to dismiss Technocracy Incorporated as just another failed utopian scheme.

Remember, this was written in 2021. In the Trump/Musk/Thiel universe of 2025, the North American technocracy is not only very much alive but, for all intents and purposes, it is in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 

And let me end this column slightly off topic but with definite relevance to the topic at hand:

It would not come as a surprise to me if Donald Trump is assassinated before he leaves office—but NOT for the reason most Trump toadies think. If such a tragedy were to occur (God forbid), it would likely be the planning of Trump's own insiders (Technocrats and Zionists) who used Trump to put J.D. Vance in the White House. 

As I reported last week, Vance was handpicked by Musk, Thiel and the Israel lobby. So was Trump, of course, but Vance represents a homegrown protégé for the next generation that would be able to take the technocratic dream of turning America into a total surveillance society to the next level. Should Trump's poll numbers falter later in his presidency, putting Vance's 2028 election in doubt, the power brokers within the technocracy and Zionism (often one and the same) would consider Trump as being expendable. 

Make no mistake about it: Vance is the Deep State's Golden Boy for 2028.

I urge readers to read this incredibly researched exposé written by Whitney Webb on the Musk/Thiel technocracy ties to the CIA, the rollout of Covid, Israel's Mossad, Facebook, the push for "pre-crime" laws (Red Flag laws are the precursor), the technocratic goal of a total surveillance state in the U.S. and J.D. Vance. 

Seriously! Please read her in-depth investigative report. 

© Chuck Baldwin

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