This is such a great image. From the technocracy movement; a utopian movement advocating a state run by Engineers. I suppose that the thinking behind this was ‘social engineers’ or a passionless, culture less state run on objective facts rather than all the other wonderful stuff that makes us human. In someways we now have this in Australia where vasts amounts of the population do little except eagerly await the nations growth statistics and the Reserve Bank’s interest rate decisions to see if they will pay $20 more on their housing loans. These banal and reductive numbers have meaning to many people and they get very angry if they don’t add up. And because our national growth rate is 3.5% or some garbage, we imagine we are better that the US or Spain or Italy. But our souls are ill and in need of happiness, we are inept Modernist technocracy where we have everything and nothing at the same time. Whilst the rest of the world is retooling, rethinking, moving on, we are still getting fat on old-fashioned 20th Century Modernity. A nation of robots works fine until something disrupts the thinking. A robot has certain independence until something gets in the way and there is a need to think things through. It is the ‘thinking things through’ that we aren’t doing and the rest of the world is. Man I want to go live in Rajasthan. When two Robots fight each other; the Robot always wins!
