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[Johnny Holiday/John A. Taube]

RALPH NADER:   “POWER TO THE PEOPLE.”

Letter to the Editor   SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Fax: 415-543-7708  San Francisco, California

Dear Editor:

Tuesday, November 7th of this year we will be electing our next
president. From your March 20, 2000, article “Nader, in Sacramento, Says
Outsider Status Is His Strength” he appears to be optimistic. My
comments reflect a background in Technocracy Inc., a scientific,
educational research organization.

>From a truly basic perspective of where our nation is heading, one could
not do better than reflect on one of Nader’s statements “. . . . That’s
what we appeal to – the recovery of control so that we have a government
of, by and for the people instead of a government of Exxon, by General
Motors and for the Duponts.” He us talking about the power of
“Corporate America.” The rest of the article is about Nader’s concepts
of how this can be turned around and the “power” will be in people’s
hands.

While one truthfully cannot doubt Nader’s sincerity, it’s unfortunate
that he does not show any understanding of the problems that result from
the scientific nature of our age, modern times. He is joined with
others, to name a few: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Angeles Davis, etc.
who are commonly classified as “liberals.” Their sincerity cannot be
questioned but their common misunderstanding is that “power” in anyone’s
hands – the common person’s or the “rich-bad-guys’ hands” – is not a key
point in solving modern day problems of our scientific-technological
age.

Ours is not the primitive culture of colonial days but we still attempt
to maintain stability using the same socioeconomic structure, our “Price
System,” that was used in primitive colonial times.

Beyond the scope of this letter is an explanation of how “power” is
actually in the hands of those who control our life-support-systems by
which we get food, water, energy– electricity, gasoline, etc. How
different from colonial times!

Any public figure who expounds on control and ignores the above
paragraph does a disservice to society.

We have moved from the primitive agrarian age of colonial times to an
advanced scientific-technological age. Our survival depends on our
adequately adopting a social structure that put us in sync with modern
times. Technocracy has drafted such a design for a modern social
structure and literature on it and other Technocracy’s concepts are
available upon request.

Sincerely,