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Technocrats

  • 17-11-2011 12:53am
    #1
    rodento
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭


    Are technocrats such a bad idea, we get qualified people to run the country who are not overly worried about re-election, has to be better than the lot we've got


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  • #2
    talkinyite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭talkinyite


    eichmann was a technocrat


  • #3
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    In general, Engineers are excellent problem solvers. However, there might as well be a lack of communication on how the answers to the problems are relayed to citizens and this lack of the popular touch would fail to carry with it public opinion. So there have been excellent technical types who became leaders eg The current Chinese leader Wen Jiabao,Thatcher, Grant they've been marked as aloof & cold.


  • #4
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    talkinyite wrote: »
    eichmann was a technocrat

    Hitler was an elected politician.

    You can't extrapolate based on one (bad) example.


  • #5
    Haelium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Haelium


    talkinyite wrote: »
    eichmann was a technocrat

    And he organized one of the most efficient genocides in history. Technocracy is exactly what the world needs, charisma doesn't count for **** when there is a real problem that needs to be solved.


  • #6
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭femur61


    Well a bunch of teachers have been running this country and look at the success they have had!


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  • #7
    anymore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭anymore


    femur61 wrote: »
    Well a bunch of teachers have been running this country and look at the success they have had!

    In fairness there were only 6 teachers as Government Minsters in Cowen's Gov and only 20 % of TDs and Senators were teachers professors.
    :DTrue the present Taoiseach and leader of the opposition and Finance Minsiter are teachers !


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