This conversation covers William E. Akin's "Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941," offers an overview of the Technocracy movement that gained significant, albeit brief, popularity during the Great Depression. The book examines the movement's genesis in progressive-era ideas concerning industrial efficiency and social engineering, drawing heavily from thinkers like Thorstein Veblen and the principles of scientific management pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Akin particularly focuses on the key figures of Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch, exploring their differing visions for a society organized around technical expertise and energy-based economics, rather than the "price system" of capitalism. Ultimately, the text explains the movement's rapid decline due to its failure to reconcile its technocratic ideals with democratic principles and its inability to address the social and political complexities beyond purely technical solutions.

Technocracy and the American Dream

The Cognitive Dissidents take a break from their...summer break...to discuss the continued advance of Police State USA (e.g. federalization of police), the march toward global algocracy (e.g. stablecoinization of the world), and more fun stuff!

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Cognitive Dissidents: Federalization of the Police & Stablecoinization of the World, Inching Toward Reset #12

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Max Igan discusses the kakistocratic elite's plans for taking over humanity, the incoming dystopian gulag system, Israel-Gaza, the information war, and solutions such as building community, raising awareness, and learning life skills.

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Max Igan: We're Almost at the Point of No Return #568

Luka Goleš Babić discusses the dangers of globalism and technocracy, the erosion of social bonds, and the importance of speaking out against totalitarian control. The COVID-19 pandemic was a turning point that exposed deeper, long-standing issues. Technology is being "deified" and people are becoming atomized, or isolated, which makes them susceptible to "mass formation" or "collective hypnosis". This atmosphere allows a "globalist technocracy" to emerge, which is a new form of totalitarianism that differs from past regimes like Nazism or communism. This agenda is being furthered through narratives related to climate change and ongoing wars.

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Luka Goleš Babić: The Rise of Globalist Technocratic Neo-Totalitarianism #569

The Cognitive Dissidents join up for their monthly powwow to discuss the Charlie Kirk deep event, the accelerating rise of technocratic fascism, and how that will make the world of Doug Casey's international man near impossible.

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Monica was a radio host for 8 1/2 years on WSB Radio in Atlanta; prior to that she was an investment banker in New York and Texas. From that previous life, Monica holds an associate’s degree from Rockland Community College, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, and a JD-MBA from Stanford. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst as well as a member of the bar of the State of New York. Monica now resides in Los Angeles where, in addition to podcasting, she experiences life as a wife, homemaker and mother of three teens, all of whom–including a very special son who has Down syndrome–really keep things interesting! Monica is also a cocktail enthusiast who posts her favorite recipes on monicamixes.com.* (*This hobby may or may not be related to having three teens and living in LA.)

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Cognitive Dissidents: Charlie Kirk, Fascism, & the End of the International Man #13

Renown Croatian author and host of the weekly Na Rubu Znanosti (On the Edge of Science) Croatian television program for over 20 years, Krešmir Mišak, discusses his work in media, the transhumanist dystopia that is taking over the planet, the history of globalism, metaphysical questions of reality, and much more.

*The interview is conducted in Croatian, but the video format has the English translation with embedded subtitles.

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Krešimir Mišak: Tiranija Transhumanizma, Povijest Globalizma, i Pitanja Stvarnosti #570

Laurent Lequeu of The Macro Butler discusses the macro economic situation and stagflation we are headed into, the historical cycle of civil unrest that is returning which also includes war signals and why governments are implementing digital controls, and more!

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Laurent Lequeu: Stagflation, Civil Unrest, War, & Digital Tyranny! #571

Michael Rectenwald discusses his newly founded Anti-Zionist America PAC (AZAPAC) which exists to end America’s political, financial, and military entanglement with Israel. He explains what has gone wrong with Zionist influence, how its mask has come off under the Trump administration, the attack on civil liberties, the devastation of Gaza, and more. He also gives an update on where we're at with the globalist project for a technocratic world state.

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Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda (Jan. 2023).

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A former Marxist, Professor Rectenwald is a champion of liberty and opposes all forms of totalitarianism and political authoritarianism, including socialism-communism, “social justice,” fascism, political correctness, and “woke” ideology.

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Michael Rectenwald: Disentangling the Zionist Lobby Through AZAPAC #572

Steven Yates explains how we've seen a gradual structural move back to a fundamentally feudal system (technofeudalism/technocracy) in which Big Tech overlords, owners of cloud capital, have replaced landed gentry. And if we till the soil of its platforms for a fee, we’re cloud serfs or cloud proles. He also discusses expatriating to Latin America.

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In 2012, he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: many of the problems in the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere.

He has a Patreon.com page. Donate and become a Patron if you benefit from his work and believe it merits being sustained financially.

Steven Yates’s book Four Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic (2011) can be ordered on Amazon.

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His cosmic horror novel The Shadow Over Sarnath (2023) (written for the sheer fun of it) can be gotten on Amazon.

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Steven Yates: Navigating Technofeudalism as a Cloud Serf #573

The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast conducts interviews with prominent international experts on a wide-range of topics.

Past guests have included diplomats, government officials, whistleblowers, soldiers, spies, economists, academics, scientists, wealthy investors, dissidents, journalists, and musicians.

The broadcast seeks to gain insight from guests who come from the left, right, and beyond. It should go without saying that the host does not always agree with beliefs espoused by podcast invitees, but maintains an open mind, and believes it important to respectfully listen to a multitude of voices and let listeners come to their own conclusions.

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