QUESTION: DO WE HAVE A SOCIETY RUN BY MONEY PEOPLE?

[Johnny Holiday/John A. Taube]

JOHN A TAUBE, TECHNOCRATIC SOCIOLOGIST

Letter to Editor
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Fax: 415.5443.7708                     August 18, 1999
San Francisco, California

Dear Editor:

Your paper went along with the media and spilt much “ink” on Iowa’s,
August 14th straw vote.  Although this event was a meaningless carnival
which doesn’t deserve the space given it, its social significance is
worthy of discussion. My comments reflect a background in Technocracy
Inc., a scientific, educational-research organization.

On Sunday, August 15th, one television station interviewed all the
republican party’s candidates or a representative of same. The
representative for George Bush made the statement that this event was a
“feast on democracy.” Immediately her interviewer, taking an opposite
view, said it was all about money, not about democracy. The subject was
dropped.

We have degenerated into a society controlled by money. On Monday,
following the straw vote, KQED-FM’s  9:00 am program discussed this
event. One republican candidate said that the outcome of the upcoming
presidential election would decide all our important matters such as the
national policy for schools, police forces, foreign matters, etc. The
most important subject was not mentioned: The Pay-Back-to-Money-People
who paid for the expensive political campaigns starts after the
election.

Those who hunt for “bad guys,” or for a grand “conspiracy” that
supposedly brought us to a government totally controlled by Money People
are displaying utmost ignorance. These people – usually referred to as
liberals – are leading masses of people in the wrong direction. They
should stop in their tracks and  find the root of our problem?

We live in the only scientific-technological age ever known and operate
this magnificent age with a socioeconomic structure, a “Price System.”
This system developed out of scarcity conditions, in primitive
societies. The system, built on principles that come from antiquity,
from ancient civilizations, worked


reasonably well in primitive-neanderthal times. In modern times its use
is suicidal.

Technocracy proposes a replacement; its Technological Social Design, as
it is laid out to fit the needs of our scientific-technological age.
Those who take the time to study it will be exhilarated to learn that
when – if –   we adopt this new type of social structure we will have an
age that will be the wonder of the world


Sincerely,   John A. Taube

AN AFTER THOUGHT

In that we are a MONEY SOCIETY was illustrated by the S.F. Examiner’s
article, August 22, 1999 “Fund Raising Hits Pay Dirt; Politicians Go For
Gold,” by Robert Salladay

The article starts on a statement made by recently elected Green Party
Assembly-woman Audie Bock lambasting California’s freewheeling campaign
fund-raising system which she said was designed to ‘squelch electoral
justice.’ The article goes on to say that Bock is now going
“gang-buster” in doing what she had lambasted. The article quotes her:

I’m in this stew with everybody else and the only thing people her
understand is MONEY, and it’s very, very unfortunate. When I first came
up here, a friend, (former state Sen.) Quentin Kopp, said they won’t pay
any attention to you unless you have $300,000 in the bank. He’s right.
Unless I have MONEY behind me, I have no credibility with these people
here in Sacramento.” (Emphasis added)
The whole article is very lengthy but is well worth one’s time to get
and read it. The essence of it and the above letter is on the same
subject, but while the article gets printed,  my letter-to-the-editor
hits the trash can. A copy of this letter is going to the Chronicle’s
editor and maybe, just maybe, he will explain why my letters are always
trashed.