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If The Technocratic Class Often Invokes Technology, It Is Because These Inanimate Objects Can Take On A Trajectory Of Their Own And So Cover For The Manager's Inability To Give Leadership.

Now Listen To The First Three Aims Of The Corporatist Movement In Germany, Italy And France During The 1920s. These Were Developed By The People Who Went On To Become Part Of The Fascist Experience: (1) Shift Power Directly To Economic And Social Interest Groups; (2) Push Entrepreneurial Initiative In Areas Normally Reserved For Public Bodies; (3) Obliterate The Boundaries Between Public And Private Interest -- That Is, Challenge The Idea Of The Public Interest. This Sounds Like The Official Program Of Most Contemporary Western Governments.

United States:. A Nation Given Either To Unjustified Over-enthusiasms Or Infantile Furies.

Nothing Is Absolute, With The Debatable Exceptions Of This Statement And Death.

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.