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[🇦🇺Craig Tindale @ctindale]

Historically, disasters often happen when the technocratic class takes over and rejects advice from every other class.

They assume authority over every aspect of society: morality, education, engineering, energy, gender , the military, the economy, and even family life. Nothing is treated as outside their jurisdiction. They assume there is no part of human life that would not be better organised by them.

It comes with a self-perceived higher competence, but that often intersects with their own lower competence in the real world. They confuse university credential with wisdom, ideology abstraction with understanding, and administrative power with moral authority.

They denounce those who oppose them as moral actors

It is, in many ways, a religious impulse, even when it presents itself as secular, rational, and scientific. It mirrors the structure of extreme religious cults: the insistence on homage, the insistence on compliance, the demand that everyone accept their moral superiority, and the belief that society must submit to their self-perceived higher ordering of all things.

The danger is when expertise becomes priesthood, and when the technocratic class begins to believe that dissent from outside its own caste is ignorance, heresy, or evil.

The danger is that literally think they are saving all of us , and that in order to perform that saviour role they must control and silence everyone , because what they are doing for us is for our own salvation .

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@AlboMP Can you just lower the tax rate for us. Cheers

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@DavidPocock You do have to realise every company, no matter the sector would, axe their loss making units. It’s up to government to understand what’s in the best interest for the population. Hence they should really be getting some ownership in the operation instead of throwing cash at em.

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@larissawaters I thought Islam is a religion not a race. Maybe I’m wrong….

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@EVCurveFuturist I guess the difference with that comparison is this is an unnatural overtake. A combination of governments creating an environment where coal plants are too expensive and dish out subsidies for renewables. Not sure if this would play out in a free market….

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With all this fossil fuel price volatility, Australia should be releasing their strategic reserve of wind and solar to help alleviate the expected high prices…. @AlboMP @matt_barrie @Ben

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@DavidPocock Why doesn’t the government just buy stakes in said companies and show that they support the industries and therefore get the returns from them. Rather than continuing to suck out any of the profits in a cyclical industry while simultaneously not wanting any further projects

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@StevenJMiles Yes leave you’re home you’ve been living in and feel comfortable in. Children want to visit and can stay over. Then move into a small apartment thats probably a mediocre layout. No one can stay over and keep you company during likely the loneliest time of your life. Pass

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@PraiseKek After going through your $NXE threads, had to chuckle that they are the helmet sponsor for the Vancouver Canucks 😂

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@octonion I’d recommend Kanzi apples. They’re hands down the most consistently crisp and delicious variety around. Anything that says “delicious” or similar in the name should be treated with suspicion.