The technocratic deformation of society

In L’ilusion politique, the French sociologist Jacques Ellul describes the way the real of politics had been transformed. Politics has become pervasive in society whereby everything becomes politicized. On the other hand, politics in its proper function and sense disappears. It seems a paradox, but in reality, politics – like much everything else had been overtaken by the technical system, by the Technique, instead of real political decisions, politicians make are technical ones. They seek only efficiency. By the same token, something else is lost freedom and humanity. The perspective of a fully technocratic governance has been already described by Bertrand Russell – who was convinced that only a global one-world technocracy can save the world – a description that is terrifying and that shows the direction in which humanity is going these days.