The existence of a certain
technocratic mandarinism is another way in which the university strengthens and perepetuates the established order.
By technocracy I mean, along
with Roszak, "that social form in which and industrial society achieves the highest level of its organizational integration." In such a social form
"everything aspires to be purely technical, everything is subject to professional treatment." According to Roszak, the great secret of technocracy, which today is experienced in certain sectors as a kind of cultural imperative, is its ability to convince us of three premises that are interrelated:
- a) "That the vital necessities of humanity are of a technical nature";
- b) that an analysis (highly esoteric) "of our needs has already attained a 99 percent level of perfection" and that
- c) "the experts that count are those that are highly certified."
The basic strategy of
technocracy, again according to Roszak,
consists "in taking life to a lower level which the technical is able to control, and then, on this exclusive and false basis, proclaim and intimidating omnipotence over all of us thanks to its monopoly of experts" (Roszak, 1969)
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Ignacio Martín-Baró (1974!!)
Towards a Society that Serves its People: The Intellectual Contributions of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits p. 223 (1991)
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