Over the last couple of years the question of technocratic governance has become a talking point in Western society. The debate concerns the degree to which qualified experts should influence or possibly even control policy.
Largely due to disillusionment with the political class, many people are broadly supportive of this idea. It is therefore crucial that we understand that technocratic governance is just one aspect of technocracy.
A Technate — technocracy applied to the whole of society — is not limited to technocratic governance. It goes much further and is a new and distinct sociopolitical construct.
A Technate vs Technocratic Governance
During the pseudopandemic, prominent members within the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) were not just providing advice, they were seemingly leading policy. People like Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were "seen," by millions of TV viewers, to be driving government decisions. The accompanying mantra from UK politicians was that they were "led by the science."
Comment: We're opposed to the idea too - and think that the author's analysis would greatly benefit from the work Political Ponerology by Andrew M. Lobaczewski - who put forward the conception of a pathocracy; a society run and largely benefitting an elite class that is made up of pathological individuals who seek to instill their psychopathic values and policies on the rest of the population.