Though its vocabulary was not altogether intelligible, it talked in terms of power energies, mechanics, efficiency, elimination of waste, and these, even more than its utopian promise of $20,000 a year incomes, were calculated to capture the American imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 Howard Scott, its progenitor, had been a familiar face in radical bohemian circles for many years, during which time had been pouring forth his scorn on the radicals’ schemes of mass revolution and demonstrating that twelve revolutionary engineers in strategic places could bring capitalism to knees in three days.\u00c2\u00a0 Coming now from the hollowed precints of Columbia University, backed by an imposing array of academic sponsors and assistants, his theories took on an authority and dignity that made Scott the Man of the Hour.\u00c2\u00a0 A Technocracy Craze swept the country.\u00c2\u00a0 The newspapers were full of it; whole magazines were devoted to it; fierce controversies raged around it.\u00c2\u00a0 Verblins’ The Engineers and the Price System, which contained the essence of technocratic theory, was republished and became a best seller.<\/p>\n
Scott himself helped to kill the movement several months later in a rambling, incoherent and confused speech that was broadcast throughout the country.\u00c2\u00a0 A few stubborn admirers hoped, and claimed, that their idol was somewhat “tight” when he made it.\u00c2\u00a0 But a new prophet had toppled from his pedestal.\u00c2\u00a0 The new panacea died a rapid death.<\/p>\n
——\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rebel America, Lilliam Symes and Travers Clement, page 369, 1934<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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