Technate Ambitions: From Arctic Annexation to Social Engineering

Описание: This video synthesizes key insights from two distinct sources, one detailing a contemporary diplomatic incident involving the United States and Denmark over Greenland, and the other providing a historical overview of the Technocracy movement.
The first key theme is the escalation of diplomatic tensions following Donald Trump's appointment of Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland. Landry’s publicly stated mission "to make Greenland a part of the US" has provoked strong condemnation from both Denmark and Greenland. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen described the move as "deeply upsetting," while Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen affirmed that the island's "territorial integrity must be respected." This action is framed within a broader context of Trump's asserted U.S. influence over "the Western hemisphere" and growing strategic competition in the resource-rich Arctic.
The second core theme is the Technocracy movement, a North American social movement from the 1930s that advocated for replacing politicians and business leaders with scientists and engineers. Founded on the ideas of figures like Howard Scott and Thorstein Veblen, the movement proposed a radical restructuring of society into a "Technate." This system would abandon the price system in favor of an "energy theory of value," where goods and services are distributed via non-transferable "energy certificates." Though its public influence peaked during the Great Depression and subsequently declined, the movement's central organization, Technocracy Incorporated, has persisted into the 21st century, and its ideas on resource-based economics and expert-led governance continue to feature in socio-political discourse.