Bruno Maçães talks about a recent convergence of ideologies ...
Here some serious pathologies quickly coalesce. First, many of these people only recently developed a taste for politics and political ideas. They have a great thirst for it, but the effect tends to be that of alcohol on an empty stomach.
For many years or decades, the industry grew completely outside politics. For the first time, a new industry entirely based on science and knowledge rose to world domination without much need for political experience.
When politics arrived at its doorstep, by means of greater political attention and regulation, it was necessary to develop an approach, even an ideology. The approach was that of the engineer who looks at political societies like physical entities subject to final, objective and reductive formulations designed for maximum control. It is easy to see how this story would conclude.
When science is imported wholesale into the political realm, when the search for natural facts replaces the search for justice, the outcome is almost always catastrophic.