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Have read your article in the Dec. 26 issue of TIME, entitled "Technocrat" with interest. In a nation tired and disgusted after three years of starvation in the midst of plenty, a plan which promises as sweeping economic and social reforms as does Technocracy is bound to produce an enormous wave of enthusiasm, and TIME does well to give it extended space...
...Technocracy" was a diagnosis of the economic structure allegedly based on scientific calculation. "Technocracy" was also an obscurely defined cure for an otherwise fatal condition. TIME asked for the No. 1 Technocrat's credentials and reported what it found...
After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated...
...impressed could have told you for certain: where Howard Scott was born, raised, educated what were his credentials as engineer or scientist; for whom he had worked; nor, for that matter, precisely what he meant by his statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...
Thus the Technical Alliance was transmogrified into Technocracy and Howard Scott, Greenwich Village character, pupated into the Technocrat. He moved his living quarters from the Village to the district called Chelsea, a half-mile closer to Columbia University. That his father made money in Constantinople or that he himself "built the Manchurian Railroad" or was born in Virginia or arrived in the U. S. by swimming from a liner from which he had jumped are typical of statements made by people who say that they are friends of the No. 1 Technocrat and that they "have heard...