Does Technocracy believe in the use of democratic methods?
No, if you mean by this the selection of administrative personnel by use of the ballot. It is too hazardous in today’s highly integrated, technological society to depend on this random method for selecting the specialized type of personnel required. We need instead a selective technique that will have some better chance of ensuring that people with first-hand knowledge of the functions they are expected to administer will be selected. Such a technique exists in the vertical alignment procedure of promotion used by industry for selecting its supervisory staff in the technical departments. It is a technique that has proved remarkably successful despite Price System interference. A modified application of the vertical alignment promotional procedure will be employed by the Technate for selecting administrators from bottom to top in all functional sequences. The Sequence Directors, heads of their respective sequences, would constitute the Continental Control; and this body would use the on
