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TECHNOCRACY: Government in the Scientific Age (Part 1) | Introduction

August 20, 2025·1 hr 11 min·4 clips

Technocracy has an outer form and a hidden side tied to a secret energy paradigm.

1. The Wisdom Tradition episode "TECHNOCRACY: Government in the Scientific Age (Part 1) | Introduction" opens a new series on technocracy from Alex Sacken's book The Coming World Nation. 2. Alex Sacken is the host and author, and he matters here because he frames technocracy, the nonprofit he plans to start, and the books he wants to publish. 3. The episode asks what technocracy is for, and Sacken says it is part of a shift from capitalism toward a science-and-technology-based system of government. 4. Sacken links that shift to his chapter "Technocracy, Government in the Scientific Age" and says this episode is the first section, "An Introduction to the Technocratic Superstate." 5. He connects the rise of the Federal Reserve to a transatlantic capitalist oligarchy that was coordinating with British counterparts around the turn of the 20th century. 6. He describes that oligarchical project as a move from a constitutional democracy toward an imperial system capable of enforcing global financial hegemony. 7. Sacken says the resulting network extends from Wall Street into all three branches of government, the economy, media, and education. 8. He uses J.P. Morgan and Nikola Tesla as an example, arguing that Tesla's Wardenclyffe project threatened the oligarchy's plan because it pointed toward "global free energy." 9. He also says Morgan's investments in Edison and General Electric gave him a controlling stake in an electrical cartel and positioned his house against the Rothschilds and the British Empire. 10. He then shifts to the 1896–1897 airship sightings in the American West and Midwest, noting hundreds of newspaper reports and claims of landings and encounters. 11. Sacken argues that the airship phenomenon disappeared almost overnight, which he takes as evidence of coordination, consolidation, or suppression. 12. He cites Charles Delschow and the Snorro Aero Club, including a Prussian society called NIMSA that wanted to weaponize the technology for German nationalism. 13. He says the later reappearance of anti-gravity-style reports in 1947 took the form of metallic flying saucers and was rebranded as extraterrestrial rather than human technology. 14. Sacken also points to modern UFO sightings and government research programs as signs that a real but hidden science exists behind the public narrative. 15. He argues that repeated shutdowns of lone inventors, including his planned case study of Adam Trombley and a 1989 demonstration at the UN, suggest a gatekeeping force suppressing etheric-energy work. 16. He names that force the "technocratic super state" and describes it as a secret scientific and technological institution mixed with a think tank, intelligence agency, and secret society. 17. Sacken says the technocratic super state uses America as its headquarters and acts like a hidden hand that engineers society toward a future revelation of etheric energy. 18. The tone is speculative, argumentative, and lecture-driven, with long-form narration, digressions into book projects, and repeated returns to historical examples. 19. People interested in Tesla, technocracy, secret history, and philosophy of technology would likely follow this episode. 20. People wanting a tightly edited, evidence-only history lesson may skip it.

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A clear first pass at technocracy, with the bigger argument still unfolding.

Alex Sacken opens a new series on technocracy and treats it as more than a buzzword. The episode argues that economic and political power may keep drifting toward digital systems, with the internet of things as the visible layer.

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If you want a theory-driven introduction to technocracy, this is a strong starting point.

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