The Godfather of American Liberalism
H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist, and advisor to presidents
by Fred Siegel
Modern American liberalism, as it emerged in the 1920s, was animated by a revolt against the masses. Liberal thinkers accused the great unwashed of smothering creative individuals in a blanket of materialist, spiritually empty cultural conformity. The liberal project was, so to speak, to refound America by replacing its business civilization—a “dictatorship of the middle class,” as Vernon Parrington put it—with a new, more highly evolved leadership. But along with the ideal of the spontaneous, creative individual, liberals also embraced government economic planning, which depended on making people more predictable. The tension between the two aspirations was resolved, rhetorically at least, by proposing to place power in the hands of scientists, academics, artists, and professionals, a new and truly worthy aristocracy that could govern based on what was good for both leaders and the led.
These antidemocratic and elitist assumptions were nowhere better illustrated than in the extraordinary career of a Briton, H. G. Wells. Wells is best remembered today as the author of such late-nineteenth-century socio-scientific fantasies as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man. But he was much more than that. His political writing achieved extraordinary influence in America, not just through his defense of liberal freedoms such as free speech but through his hostility to population growth, capitalism, and democracy itself.
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June 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Conspiracy theory aside… and it should be put aside… the Technocracy technate concept has a lot to offer as to viable governance based on science.
It is not ‘rule by experts’ as another post below claims.
It is administration by science ideas.
For actual information on these concepts go here.
Links to articles, essays, science information, YouTube presentations and more.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
1995 Published in: ~ Technocracy Digest, 1st quarter 1996, No. 319 - Information elsewhere as to the link: A new way article
From the official Technocracy Incorporated site archive.
Before, during, and now, after the election of a new batch of politicians, the media continues to flood us with “cutting the deficit” and “balancing the budget” analysis. My comments on these phenomena reflect a background in Technocracy, Inc., an educational, research organization.
Deficit spending has been an important part of our way of life ever since the ’30s. The only change has been its astronomical growth. Our memories are short. During the Great Depression, budget cuts were enacted to reduce deficit spending. What happened? We had a depression within the depression. Deficit spending had to be increased to solve the problem.
Good times, or what were considered good times, and deficit spending, go hand in hand. Without it, the economy would crumble. Now, we are told that deficits will crumble the economy as well. So, we are damned if we deficit and damned if we don’t deficit! In other words, no matter what maneuvers politicians try, the system just won’t work.
What we know, for sure, is that we are in serious trouble. Politicians — collectively and singly — offer no solution, just promises tried before and found wanting then. Bluntly put, politicians are useless. The security of our society depends on doing something drastic, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with deficit spending, balancing the budget, etc.
Our socioeconomic structure, our “Price System”, adequately handled the operation of society during the slow-pace, hand-tool, stoop-labour days of the primitive, agrarian age. Practically everyone had a job, or could get a job. There was no welfare or mass-unemployment. Today, because assembly-line production, computer robotic automation, downsizing, reinventing government, etc., employing the entire workforce is a physical impossibility. Deficit spending has been the linchpin that has maintained the economy, as bad as it is, and has kept it from terminal disaster.
In our high-tech, modern technological age, our Price System manipulations are a tragedy, causing widespread, unnecessary suffering. We must install a design of social operation that is in sync. with our modern times, and take advantage of the technological advances, not leave ourselves punished by them.
Technocracy proposes that we trash our Price System and install a modern technological social design. We are talking about a whole new way of life. Deficit spending, balancing the budget, welfare, unemployment, poverty, taxes, etc. vanish.
Those who study Technocracy’s proposal find its concepts exhilarating. Yes, it’s a whole new way of life. Check it out.
– Jim Deacove
7943-1 Technocracy Section,
Hamilton, Ont.
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January 15th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Conspiracy Theory? You sound intelligent enough to ascertain the historic facts apart from the willful distortions offered up as “history” for general consumption by those who believe distortion will keep the masses under control . If that is true then we can surmise that there is an emotional compulsion behind your attachment to the denial of factual history. Otherwise you must be an active component of the conspiratorial cabal you very own self…LOL.
Utopian mythology will someday be recognized for what it is, a seriously flawed model akin to the worst of manipulative pagan religions. Any form of socio-political order which places an unrestrained abundance of power in the hands of a privileged few is courting disaster. There are universal elements in humankind that beget the noblest spirit and also, the most depraved daemon. H.G. Wells might not have been willing to recognize this but it is true and his oligarchy of supreme beings will be no less susceptible to temptation than we lowly drudges. This is evident to all but the zealous champions of this New World Order. Unfortunately the world may realize this too late… if they are able to remember sweet freedom at all.
I am old enough to remember the excitement and pious fervor of our intelligentsia that brought naïve new ideas to so many, only to disavow their mad-genius schemes when they brought greater destruction and tragedy than the conditions they promised to relieve. The “powers that be” have been in control of the monetary machinations for a very long time… it is their failure your are witnessing. Be damned sure you are not falling prey to their intrigues when you take on the roll of creator. Concentration of power is begging for corruption for the remoteness of government from the individual easily allows criminal anonymity and callous indifference. If we can extricate humanity from the twisted grasp of these Elites and form a healthy order with ironclad safeguards and stringently limit the state’s coercive powers then we might bring about a better world. Of course it is all much deeper than this… but you aren’t interested such “conspiracy theories”. Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito