vineri, 25 noiembrie 2011

Chapters IV, V, VI - Breaking the Code, The Technicians of Power, The Hidden Blueprint

The acute conflict existing in schools, business circles and in the circles leading the world today is focused largely on six principles spread by industrialism: standardization (applying this principle, the Second Wave equalized differences at many levels), specialization (the Second Wave replaced the good at all peasant with the narrow, but pretentious specialist and with the worker who always repeat the same operation; it also made ​​a clear difference between consumer and producer), synchronization, concentration, maximization, centralization (a classic example can be the first railroad; the staff was divided in "operating" and "leadership", were initiated daily reports, the central bank was created). These principles have led to the development bureaucracy.


Industrialism broke the community life and the culture. The desire to put things back together gave birth to many specialists. Their purpose was to integrate and they were the integrators.  They were defining roles, assigning jobs, deciding wages, establishing criteria and giving or not recommendations. They linked the production, marketing, transport and communications, established laws of interaction of businesses and institutions, assembling the pieces that make up society. So was born the numerous government, the big accelerator.

In economics, the first integrators were factory owners, entrepreneurs, owners of spinning and hardware manufacturers.

There were also the super-elites who were the decision-makers and those who made ​​the major investment allocations.

It was not easy for the creators of the second wave of political systems to imagineafter millennia of agriculture, an economy based on capital, labor, energy and raw materials, not on earth.

Revolutionary Readers of the societies in the second wave, capitalists or socialists, invented the political institutions with many features of the machines in the early industrial age. Structures that  shaped and mounted them were based on representation. In each country were used several standard features such as voting citizens, parties for collecting votes, candidates to win votes and become people's representatives, legislators, leaders. The votes were the base of the mechanism and were the mirror of the "Will of the people". The government representative became the symbol of an "advanced" nation, but it never actually was under the control of the people, because it was being managed by the elites.

Representative form of government - democracy, as we have been taught to call it - was,  in short, an industrial technology to ensure the inequality.

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