The TWM site is dead. If you click through you will be taken to the Internet Archive site to find an archived copy.
The question of democracy is often discussed on the assumption that we are obliged to choose between the rule of the modern beneficent despot, the expert, and a muddled, befogged ‘people’. If the question were as simple as that, most of our troubles would be over; we should only have to get enough Intelligence Bureaus in Washington, enough scientific management into our factories, enough specialists (on hygiene, transportation, etc.) into the cities, enough formulae from the agricultural colleges into the country, and all life would become fair and beautiful. For all the people, it is assumed, will gladly agree to become automata when we show them all the things – nice solid, objective things – they can have in abandoning their own experience in favor of a superior race of men called experts.
Click to Add the First »