The technocracy can be defined as “that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technological experts who, in turn, justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge” and to “the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity.”105 By “science” and “rationality” one should read the scientism and primarily instrumental reason (Hegel’s Verstand or “understanding”) of the new enlightenment, whose cadre of experts by this time had become the handsomely funded lackeys of the (techno) military industrial complex.
