[lbo-talk] Green Party 2004

[Dennis Perrin]

> What a terrible technocratic view of democracy. Ugg. Sure, such experts
> should be given some real free play, but the workers who health depend on
> the sewer line deserve some real say in where such lines go, not just
leave
> it up to technocratic aesthetics.


> -- Nathan Newman

Of course. The point was about the planning of sewer lines (which would, I'd
think, follow functional rather than aesthetic concerns). The application
would have to be agreed upon by those affected by the plan. You would have
to have some measure of technocracy, though, unless everyone was committed
to learning every aspect of every social profession.

DP