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technocracy
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technocracy
1. a theory or system of society according to which government is controlled by scientists, engineers, and other experts
2. a body of such experts
3. a state considered to be governed or organized according to these principles


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But technocracies are still with us--except nowadays, rather than serving as facilitators for change, they often have proven to be inhibitors.
Among the values Agacinski regards as imperiled in "the general economy of time" governing modern technocracies are those essential to the health of democratic regimes.
It is the endless nightmare of the mind in continuous waking with no forest of green sleep but massed rancid ragheaps, the logs written like live graffiti sprawled across mass transit seats spelling chronicles of an ending like plague-words made flesh: I smell the death in you, your brother, your sister, your lover and anyone else invaded, afflicted with humanity, our fad and empty sciences, technocracies making vidiots who pillage only more TVs (which bend their bodies under the weight of O.
 
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